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I'm definitely not a tough guy, you couldn't get further from it tbh. All I know that if I saw my son/daughter coming home from school everyday and their life was clearly being made miserable by a certain group of people and I had exhausted the available avenues, I would have to take matters into my own hands. If that involved intimidating said persons or a more severe physical approach, then so be it.
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So when is last resort violence acceptable? When your life is at risk? When you are particularly upset over your treatment? When you decide that you can smooth over your own problems by lashing out at other people too?
I had a similar experience during my time at school and as I have got older I realised that I was wrong to fight back the way I did. I used to tell the story in a similar way to you but there was a certain point in my life that I realised that I was just trying to sound like a tough guy based on a school playground incident and actually it would have been far better for me to solve my problems without smashing somebody's face in.
Ultimately, all it achieved was badly injuring another child who was then too afraid to carry on being a dick. It didn't stop anybody else. That's a lot of fear to impart on somebody because I didn't have the confidence to stand up for myself without using my fists.