People enjoying watching others fight. What do you think?

I briefly visited the OTF forum (I am going to claim temporary insanity, or boredom) and saw a thread about school fights. It quickly degenerated into people talking about how cool school fights were to watch and how cool it was to participate in such an activity.

Here are some of the more remarkable quotes:

Originally posted by ben_dover
Every teacher kept their students in class while hundred others were out and fighting. It was awesome!!!

Originally posted by DanieLs_4_Ever
The violence even started in Middle School when I witnessed a fat kid getting his head slammed into a concrete wall. It was great.

Originally posted by Grim Reefer
That must suck having your whole state basically destroyed and then having a to go to a school where they all want to **** you up. But that would have been cool to see.

Originally posted by BackFire
It's quite a silly elitist attitude that people who enjoy watching fights are in some manner not mature or something. Nothing wrong with enjoying lifes simple pleasures.

Originally posted by kmcdude
Sounds great! I love seeing fat kids get beat up

Originally posted by DeNiro
Thats ****ing BAD ASS I would have loved to watch that fight well actully if there was that many kids I think that I would of have to joined in for fun but then ran away quickly just so I wouldnt have gotten caughte by the cops

Originally posted by kmcdude
When I was in Highschool me and my mates used to punch people up and start fights for no reason at all

As I have said before, I enjoy watching combat sports such as boxing or mma events, I als used to box for a few years when I was younger. I also grew up in a fairly tough situation and fought often myself, I am not incredibly proud of it, but it happened. But I find it a little pathetic for people to enjoy watching others fight, attack, harass or injure peers in a streetfighting or public scenario.

I don't want this thread to be about fighting, or have it to become a forum for immature wankers to declare what tough guys they are.

I want to know if anyone else sees this as pathetic as I do? I am also interested to hear why people think other people enjoy watching others fight so much, or why others enjoy picking fights so much.

I am sure I will be flamed by some of the members whose quotes I posted, or by some members who think that they are bruce lee, but I am interested in what a few of the more rational members of this forum think of this phenomena.

depends on the fight.

if its a mutual one on one, and nobody gets hurt bad, then i'll watch.
not like i'd be all jacked up about it, but i wouldnt be like "oh thats so horrible" i think 3 times in my life i actually saw such a fight.

unfortunately most fights are not like that, and are usually one sided,
started by a coward who only picks that fight because he/she knows they will win for whatever reason. thats the reality. its in fights like this that people get hurt badly and possibly permanently injured or even killed.

so in an idalistic world i wouldnt mind seeing a fight, but in the real shitty world, where people end up with permanent injuries in an unprovoked fight, i would certainly rather not.

I suppose it's a base attraction; I can't say I'm personally enamoured with the idea.

Unless it's girls.

I've never really seen a bad fight....

Originally posted by PVS
if its a mutual one on one, and nobody gets hurt bad, then i'll watch.
not like i'd be all jacked up about it, but i wouldnt be like "oh thats so horrible" i think 3 times in my life i actually saw such a fight.

but what do you think of comments (or the people who make them) such as:

The violence even started in Middle School when I witnessed a fat kid getting his head slammed into a concrete wall. It was great.

or

Thats ****ing BAD ASS I would have loved to watch that fight well actully if there was that many kids I think that I would of have to joined in for fun but then ran away quickly just so I wouldnt have gotten caughte by the cops

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Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Unless it's girls.

In bikinis while in jello or mud right?

I jus watch to see people kill each other ova somethin. Its not funny. Why do people laugh when two females fight?

Originally posted by KharmaDog

In bikinis while in jello or mud right?

Any liquids really.

Originally posted by JacopeX
I jus watch to see people kill each other ova somethin.

So you witnessed this a number of times? That's very gangsta of you? You may not fing it fummy, but you obviously find it entertaining. Why is that?

Its like watchin wrestlin. If you were to know the whole story behind the fight, it will be entertaining. I like seeing two people use as much sternght they can hurting the other. When i get in afight, it get braken up by people holdin us back

Originally posted by JacopeX
Its like watchin wrestlin. If you were to know the whole story behind the fight, it will be entertaining.

Wrestling is fake, sorry to burst your bubble.

Originally posted by JacopeX
I like seeing two people use as much sternght they can hurting the other.

Is that because you are powerless in your own life, you find it homoerotic, or some other reason?

I like watching combat sports (once again boxing or mma) but I don't like watching someone getting seriously injured. That sounds like something an immature or problemed person would say.

Originally posted by JacopeX
When i get in afight, it get braken up by people holdin us back

Why do you feel the need to tell others that? Do you think we'd be inpressed by that?

Originally posted by KharmaDog
Wrestling is fake, sorry to burst your bubble.

Is that because you are powerless in your own life, you find it homoerotic, or some other reason?

I like watching combat sports (once again boxing or mma) but I don't like watching someone getting seriously injured. That sounds like something an immature or problemed person would say.

Why do you feel the need to tell others that? Do you think we'd be inpressed by that?

Yea, well wut eva, i like solvin it the talkative way but when someone hits me, it on!

Im not trying to impress no one aiight

I don´t like to see others fight without reason, but what could attract me in a fight is if there is something to win in this fight.... I expect to see some kind of victory in a fight. Do people enjoy watching fights to see others being humiliated ? Its strange since no matter who is being humiliated people always tend to enjoy, even if you don´t know the person. Normally I usually like to see humiliated only those I don´t like, and normally I know these persons.

Originally posted by JacopeX
I know its fake holmes but its fun to watch and the grapples and injuries are really and what do you think they train and all that?

It's 'homes' as in 'homeboy' or 'hommie'. But as you are a gansta you already know that.

ok

Originally posted by KharmaDog
but what do you think of comments (or the people who make them) such as:

disgusting. a wish to see people hurt is absolutely disgusting.
but thats a given

....as long as they arent on the recieving end.

Originally posted by KharmaDog
Wrestling is fake, sorry to burst your bubble.

Many wrestlers have had career ending injuries. Wrestling is not fake.

Originally posted by WindDancer
Many wrestlers have had career ending injuries. Wrestling is not fake.

The injuries are real. The fighting and stories are fake.

There is no way half of the people in the WWE could beat a man like Paul Wight if it were real.

But this is off topic.

your first mistake was going into the OTF 😂 90%of them have no sense of right or wrong

Originally posted by KharmaDog
The injuries are real. The fighting and stories are fake.

There is no way half of the people in the WWE could beat a man like Paul Wight if it were real.

But this is off topic.

Of course the storylines are fake. The injuries are for real. And is not as off topic as you claim. Why do people enjoy watching WWE? People beat each other for entertainment. Just like boxing (which you mention earlier) people pay to see someone getting beat up. I quite frankly think is a mixture human savagery and that feeling of competition which drive people to witness these spectacles of violence.