You figure that it goes without a saying. You can be having a heated discussion about anything with somebody and, if no agreement is reached, people will part their ways probably muttering to themselves how stupid is the other party.

Not anymore.

I bring this because of the comments I read on social media and other locations about the Pollo Tropical Restaurant Shooting. Some people seemed to feel that even though the argument was escalated to one of the parties to use hands/fist, it is OK to do so as if punches were not (to paraphrase Whoppi Goldberg) “violence-violence.”

Here is an example. Apparently one guy called the other guy’s lady a name and first guy went Sir Lancelot  demanding apologies.  Watch all the way to the end.

Repeat after me: “Words do not hurt.” again, “Words do not hurt.” But you know what hurts? Handcuffs, spending a night or more in jail, Reggie introducing you to the secrets of Big House Love (don’t pick up the soap), a felony rap that will screw up your life forever. And as we seen before, a conviction for Manslaughter also hurts like a sonsofbitch because one punch can kill somebody.

But yet, I see more and more people defending the end of an argument with physical violence. They do not seem to comprehend that depending on the circumstances, the only thing they are doing is setting themselves up to be shot and the other party walks away because the unnecessary escalation.

I think people nowadays not only assume it is their right to win (Generation Participation Trophy) and even a simple discussion that is not going their way is destructive to their ego and demands satisfaction.  This used to be the behavior of the mentally unbalanced but now appears to become the norm among more and more people because they have been wrongly taught they can get away with it. And then somebody teaches them differently in a painful way.

But what I fear the most is the one idiot that even after letting him win the argument and/or offer apologies for the real or imaginary affront, feels the need to exact a pound of flesh from your backside.

It is getting difficult to act civilized when people in the outside world feel they are in a Ego-Driven Gladiator Match.