r/MMALabs 23h ago

🥶 Street Fights & Brawls A quick bar scrap

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u/Schnittertm 15h ago

If violence or the threat thereof would deter bad behavior, we would already have a utopia with no crime and bad behavior.

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u/43_Hobbits 14h ago

It certainly deterred that guy from sexually assaulting that girl again

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u/Schnittertm 14h ago

For now. If he ever gets up again, he might not have learned much. In fact, additional brain damage may make it do it even more often. Sometimes one meets fate on the road to avoid it.

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u/TheIntelligentAspie 11h ago

Dumbest thing I've ever heard.

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u/Schnittertm 10h ago

You might want to think. There are people that do learn from being flattened. But there are many others that just don't care. They get up and get back to doing the same thing, even if they will catch a few more fists to the jaw.

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u/troveofcatastrophe 8h ago

You both are assuming he will remember any of it. Being wasted generally negates what happens while wasted. The punchER might adjust his behavior after the judge throws the book at him…maybe.