re: #309 Big Steve

Not to question your intent at all but how many people who say things like this have ever been beaten up. I mean really beaten. Further how many people actually have beaten someone else up.

I have experienced both and both experiences are extremely visceral. Obviously getting beaten up not only hurt physically but it was extremely humiliating mentally. But I would have to say beating someone else up (and it was a male about my size and age by the way) was profoundly unnerving and still haunts me to this day. I feel I donated some of my soul by doing this and I will never get it all back.

Beaten up. No. But I have inflicted sufficient pain to gain my objective, either getting a person to stop something or subduing someone.

If someone was beating on a woman, I’m more than willing to use sufficient force to stop the assault, but no more.