why do some people feel that violence is an act of a coward??

Question

people always say "it takes a real person to walk away"

i see people who walk away as BACKING DOWN and leaving with there tail between there legs. and then turning around and trying to justifying there cowardice by saying that its the violent who are the cowards. yet people FEAR the violent. and that fear is what makes a coward. a fighter isnt scared. but the one who runs away clearly is

how is a "violent" person a coward if they do NOT LOOK for a fight. but they assault a person when they are disrespected, confronted to fight, or sticking up for a friend or an animal?

how is a person who handles there business immature?

Answer 1

If you're fighting for the right reasons, you are not a coward.

On the other hand, sometimes bullies "project" a show of strength to shield the opposite in terms of weakness and insecurities. Therefore, someone who strikes out in the form of physical violence may be doing so because he is deathly afraid (like a coward) of being victimized himself so he erects a shield of violence to send a message not to mess with him. This is the classical bully mentality.

You can tell because it is violence and intimidation with no constructive purpose. It is merely meant to offend and intimidate indiscriminately.

However, fighting for a cause,especially an altruistic one like you've mentioned, is not an act of cowardice. Those runners who turn to accuse the champion of being a coward do so only to deflect attention away from their own cowardice.

Answer 2

Well, you are right about the coward who backs down from a fight being ....well.... a coward. But the true meaning to the statement is being in a situation where your aren't afriad to fight, being confident in your ability to fight, but choosing not to because you realize that there is no real point and result of it.

Even if you are verbally assaulted, and you retaliate, will that make someone else more respectful of you? Absolutely not. It, if anything, will make the situation worse. It takes patience, self-restraint, and courage to realize it. Its the person who rushes to the fight that is the coward because they refuse to try and look for a better, more lasting solution.

As far as sticking up for a friend or animal, fighting can be a necessary evil. But a rush to get physical without a physical provocation is just as cowardly as running away from one.

Answer 3

Animals are wild and uncivilized. They live in fear; they fight by instinct over mates and when cornered. They often run from a fight if they get the chance; it seems they go by the rule, He who runs from danger and lives, lives to face danger again, while he who resists danger and maybe dies may be finished forever. Animals are not trying to oppose their wills on another. Humans are civilized (?) animals. But humans who stand up to one another in a physical confrontation ARE trying to impose their will on the other. The difference is that animals have no real wills they live mostly by instinct.

Dominate or be dominated is the CODE OF THE WEST and has for long been the mark of brave men. The face off between a gun sling-er and a sheriff in the streets of Laredo was the mark of manhood. DOMINATE OR BE DOMINATED IS A STUPID WAY TO LIVE! It is a mindless confrontation of wills.

It takes brains to find a non-violent solution to a
disagreement; brains and a subjugation of ones own selfish will to the realization that the other was born equal to you and has rights to his will. It takes brains to cooperate. Animals don't have much in the way of brains or a non-instinctual will but they seem to mostly know when to back down and live to meet again.

A violent person is not so much a coward as selfishly stupid.

Good luck with your will, good mental health, peace and love!

Answer 4

A violent person may or may not be a coward. If he uses violence to solve a problem that could be solved favorably in a non violent way, he is a fool. If he uses violence because of what others may think of him, he is a coward. If he uses violence to combat violent evil, he has done what he should.

Answer 5

Words are a stronger weapon than violence. They hurt more. If someone is offering violence they obviously don't feel their best weapon is adequate to win.
When a person shows violence, it seems to me that they revert years in evolutionary terms. They go back to basics. They become the caveman, the fighting monkeys we are all descended from. The ones who did not discover fire, the wheel, electricity etc.
The person who walks away is not backing down. They keep their dignity, their humanity. This person is the bigger person.

Answer 6

they are not cowards... no, but theyre immature. violence is almost never the answer