Why do people run away from battles?

[cpvr]

Yesterday, my friends were about to fight these 3 dudes and they were like "Hit me first and we'll fight". Next thing you know we were in a chase trying to get them to fight them. They wouldn't fight back. All they did was run their mouth and not fight. What's up with that? How come some people like to run their mouth and not fight back? I don't get it.

[beanso]

Well if your friends hadn't hit them first, then it's understandable.
But if no punch had been thrown, the first person throwing the punch could have been charged with assault, providing they were above the age of 18.

[cpvr]

Well, we're I'm we don't care about the assault charge. If there's a fight, then it's going to go down regardless. There's no need to think about the charges, or what'll happen if someone snitches. The case I was trying to bring across is why do people run away from battles if they start it?

[electric_blue_kirby]

Voice 1:

That's likely their instincts doing their job of ruling over poor logic. Firstly, there's the fight or flight response. Whenever met with a threat, your brain decides if it can defeat it, or if fleeing is a better option (hence why you'd run from a bear rather than try to punch it). During combat, your brain function shifts towards the midbrain area, which is the more primal, instinctual part of your mind. Not fighting your fellow man is a part of this midbrain thought (although I can't remember the name of the instinct). (1) (http://www.killology.com/art_psych_resistance.htm)

While they may be taunting you from the human, cultural part of their logic, instincts prevail.

[Fly]

I say you pick your battles to fight. If the words they said were stupid (meanning racial, gender bashing, etc.) then it's best to turn the other cheek and not fight. Show you're the bigger person.

If it's a fight you can't avoid, then go all out and whoop some ass.

Maybe they were taunting yall, just to see what you would do with no intent to fight you in the first place.
You call them "school yard bullies" who have nothing better to do, but don't have the balls to back up what they say.

[cpvr]

I say you pick your battles to fight. If the words they said were stupid (meanning racial, gender bashing, etc.) then it's best to turn the other cheek and not fight. Show you're the bigger person.

If it's a fight you can't avoid, then go all out and whoop some ass.

Maybe they were taunting yall, just to see what you would do with no intent to fight you in the first place.
You call them "school yard bullies" who have nothing better to do, but don't have the balls to back up what they say.
Ya, basically that's what they're called because they were planning to jump my homeboy and told the whole school that they were going to do it, but when my other homeboy and I got involved, they got scared and ran away. Even though, their fight was going to be 1 on 1 that didn't matter to them. They just wanted to jump & get away with it.

[Fly]

~laugh~ I'd forget about it then. All talk and no action is the way alot of people live their lives.

[Herb]

Plain and simple...most people re all bark and no bite!!

They can talk the talk but can't walk the walk.

[cpvr]

So, basically if they're going to run away from their battles, you'll drop the beef and just let them talk all the talk that they want?

[Fly]

I didn't say that.

What I'm saying is that if it's a one time thing, then I wouldn't pay it much attention if they didn't want to fight.

If it happened again, I'd most likely bust some a$$...whether they wanted to fight or not.

I had a situation like this in high school. It ended in a big I dunno what. ~laugh~ It never came down to a fight, but I was surrounded in the bathroom by 5 other girls that wanted to tear my butt off.

[Awakening]

Fighting simply isn't worth most of the time. I have learned to let it go.

[TVDinner]

when I was younger, lol I was one of those who would fight first and ask questions later. I fought alot and I think i actually liked it. We would always be in one fight or another. what I found is 99% of the people are all bark. I was willing to actually throw punches and mix it up. almost everyone else will not. they talk tough and a big game, but when faced with actually fighting they will shy away. THIS IS A GOOD THING that most people are like that and better then fighting. As I have gotten older I realized that fighting first is silly and down right dangerous, because eventually you WILL meet another person who will happily fight back, and potentially with MUCH greater force or weapons and then ... you die. so I do not fight anymore, but I did at one time.

[ben]

You don't need to use a fist to win a fight. A fight is not always physical. Just because you are stronger doesn't mean you should be given the benefit. Talking or arguing usually proves more, and nobody is physically injured, or breaking the law.

[Fly]

I have to say I agree with tv. I myself was once a scrapper, but now it's just not all that worth it. Just getting physical (as in a shove) is most of the time pretty much all it took to get someone to back off of me.

[TVDinner]

exactly. every night I read about people who are killed senselessly over nonsense.

[xAnonymousx]

They're wimps...?