When Would You Get Involved, If At All ?

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Joseph
Well I could not let a fellow Apolyton poster be hurt. I would miss some of his/her posts or threads, maybe.

Well, all righty then ! I like the sound of that.


Dillo boots. I don't know that they have those, yet.
We may have just found a need that needs to be filled.

[chequita guevara]

We got 'dillos too.

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Lancer
It depends on alot of factors. Also, gender DOES matter. If a guy is slapping a woman around, I get involved. I've done so twice in my life, both times the guy backed down. One time when I was 17, in the army in Germany and the guy was much bigger, but he backed off, thank God. I was a skinny kid in the army, he would have kicked my ass. I think he was embarrassed.

If it's a child, I'd intervene.

A big guy pushing around a little guy, I don't know, depends. I'd wait to see if it ended perhaps. Sometimes just watching might be enough to break up a shoving match. A full blown fight, or a beating...depends on alot of things. Do I know one of them? Or, one of them might have a gun. Both could turn on me and attack...Just yelling, COPS! might be enough.

Why would you immediately jump in for a woman and not a man, are they not equal?

For me, I'd probably go and get help, just because I'm rather frail. Hopefully my brother and his bestfriend would be there, because they can kick just about anyone's ass.

[loinburger]

It really depends on the situation, but in the past my response has usually been somewhere between options 1 and 2 (e.g. I'll say "What the **** is going on here?" because who knows, maybe the guy getting picked on really does deserve an ass-kicking...)

[Bosh]

Unless I think there's a chance of one of them having weopons I'd definately do something, getting hit a few times won't kill me.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Why would you immediately jump in for a woman and not a man, are they not equal?

Probably not.

[Urban Ranger]

There was only one time where my intervention was required.

When I was waiting for a bus suddenly there were six of these scrawny punks slapping a scrawny punk around. I bellowed at the group, "What are you doing?" They stopped, looked at me, and scattered. Even the punk who got kicked about fled.

[Shi Huangdi]

What if it was a larger woman beating up a smaller woman? Would you intervene then?

[Skanky Burns]

I'd wait for them to start tearing clothes.

Seriously, if I saw two people fighting in the street I probably wouldn't get involved. I doubt I would be able to survive should they choose to pick on me instead.

[loinburger]

My assumption here was that the two people involved are sober. If it was a good old fashioned drunken brawl then I'd most likely pull up a chair and watch the fun.

[KrazyHorse]

I'd get involved as soon as one of them didn't want to fight any more.

I've done it before. Luckily it's always been with little toughie teenagers. Never had to stand up to a biker or anything...

Sometimes all it takes is a look. I was waiting outside a club in a car one time when I saw this girl and a guy having a shouting match. She was crying and pushing him away. He was getting angry and looked like he was about to start slapping her around. I just opened the door, stood up and caught his eye. That was enough.

[DaShi]

[SlowwHand]

"Come into my web", said the spider to the fly.


Ok. Extrapolating* what we see here, taking it from micro to macro, this is what we're left with:

I rush in immediately. This isn't right. 6 31.58%
Wait until the littler person screams for help. 2 10.53%

Congratulations. You're like George Bush, and the majority of Americans.

Wait until the littler person screams for help. 2 10.53%
Watch the kicking around, and finally ask "Need A little help?'. 1 5.26%

Here we see Tony Blair and the majority of Britain.


Not my problem. I call the cops. 6

This puts you with nations like the Swiss.


Not my problem, and I leave the area. 2 10.53%

Germany


I watch. It's funny. The little person is getting smoked royally. 1 5.26%

And finally, the French. SO glad someone else is getting kicked to the curb.


Thank you for participating.
Hopefully this will help you see yourselves in a brighter light.

























*1 : to infer (values of a variable in an unobserved interval) from values within an already observed interval
2 a : to project, extend, or expand (known data or experience) into an area not known or experienced so as to arrive at a usually conjectural knowledge of the unknown area b : to predict by projecting past experience or known data

[loinburger]

What nation's playing with its banana?

[Q Classic]

depends. friends get priority; strangers i'd make the decision on my current status at the time. if i were in an advantageous position, i'd offer assistance in clearing the matter up; if i were not, i'd watch matters develop more.

if it's someone i didn't like, such an occurence would elicit no reaction from me.