There is no honor when your life is at stake. You take your opponent down anyway possible. A kick to the nuts would be one of the first considerations. If your trying to kill me then honor has flown out the window already.
solarenemy said: There is no honor when your life is at stake. You take your opponent down anyway possible. A kick to the nuts would be one of the first considerations. If your trying to kill me then honor has flown out the window already.
Reewee said: Some fights have rules, most don't. But a lot of people will still fight as though there are rules.
And they're going to be the ones getting hammered by the likes of Rorschach and company. As many have said before me, in a street fight, your goal is to disable the opponent by inflicting more damage than he does. It doesn't matter if you do that by clawing out the eyes, kicking them in the crotch, or tearing out their throat, what matters is that you stay standing while he goes down. Fighting dirty is always going to win over fighting fair, which means you don't have much incentive to fight fair...
ThunderBird said: And they're going to be the ones getting hammered by the likes of Rorschach and company. As many have said before me, in a street fight, your goal is to disable the opponent by inflicting more damage than he does. It doesn't matter if you do that by clawing out the eyes, kicking them in the crotch, or tearing out their throat, what matters is that you stay standing while he goes down. Fighting dirty is always going to win over fighting fair, which means you don't have much incentive to fight fair...
Okay, I couldn't avoid this fight, there is now a hole where my opponents eye used to be, and I am wiping things I don't want to think about from my thumb. Now what? Do I slam some blunt object at my head and claim I was mugged but don't remember much else?
AlsoSprachOdin said: Okay, I couldn't avoid this fight, there is now a hole where my opponents eye used to be, and I am wiping things I don't want to think about from my thumb. Now what? Do I slam some blunt object at my head and claim I was mugged but don't remember much else?
I can't speak for every legal system in the world, but at the very least, Hungarian law recognizes the concept of self-defense. (I know US/English law does so as well, but in those cases, the circumstances surrounding self-defense and its judgment in trial are quite different, for example the 'Duty to Retreat') Specifically, "one who acted in response to an attack on his or her self, another's person, possessions, or the public interest may not be persecuted." The penal code also includes immunity from persecution if the defendant used excessive force due to "fright or justifiable anger". Also, in a direct contrast to English/American law, Hungarian law specifically stipulates that the defendant has no duty to retreat! Also, one may not be persecuted for using instruments of self-defense, provided they are non-lethal, even if the instrument injures the attacker.
This means that if this happened in Hungary, with you subject to our laws, if you proved that you really did everything in your power to avoid the fight, short of surrendering your valuables, you would be free to go: having acted in self-defense, you were frightened, and overestimated the force of your response, which renders you immune to persecution under our penal code. Case Closed! :)
