As another poster pointed out, fights rarely happen when there's not booze involved.
I mean, thinking back on high school, with men whose minds haven't fully matured, fights in the gym were not any more uncommon than anywhere else. Fights would break out in wrestling practice, football practice, in games, weight room, wherever.
Adult men don't fight much if they're not on anything, and on the street, there's more of a chance you'll run into someone on something even if you're not. The gym is a decidedly sober environment.
For the most part, a rational male adult in this day and age does not want:
a) To be hurt.
b) To hurt another man.
Another thing that blows my mind how many big guys I've met who look really intimidating, or even so-so sized guys who are always talking and acting big ("I'd punch that motherfucker in the mouth if he said that to me" blah blah blah), and then you get talking to them as a friend and find out they've never actually been in a real fight. Or have been in very few. Or not since a kid.
These are those guys that act all hard but crumble when you call them out, and there are a lot of them these days if you're both sober and they're not backed up by a group.
It's not that the potential for violence isn't always around you, but it's generally a pretty slim portion of the population doing the walking.
Final point - men who do fight sober in public places are probably not very self-disciplined men, and therefore don't go to the gym on a regular basis. There are certainly plenty of exceptions to this rule but it bears thinking about.
I mean, thinking back on high school, with men whose minds haven't fully matured, fights in the gym were not any more uncommon than anywhere else. Fights would break out in wrestling practice, football practice, in games, weight room, wherever.
Adult men don't fight much if they're not on anything, and on the street, there's more of a chance you'll run into someone on something even if you're not. The gym is a decidedly sober environment.
For the most part, a rational male adult in this day and age does not want:
a) To be hurt.
b) To hurt another man.
Another thing that blows my mind how many big guys I've met who look really intimidating, or even so-so sized guys who are always talking and acting big ("I'd punch that motherfucker in the mouth if he said that to me" blah blah blah), and then you get talking to them as a friend and find out they've never actually been in a real fight. Or have been in very few. Or not since a kid.
These are those guys that act all hard but crumble when you call them out, and there are a lot of them these days if you're both sober and they're not backed up by a group.
It's not that the potential for violence isn't always around you, but it's generally a pretty slim portion of the population doing the walking.
Final point - men who do fight sober in public places are probably not very self-disciplined men, and therefore don't go to the gym on a regular basis. There are certainly plenty of exceptions to this rule but it bears thinking about.
Beyond All Seas
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Kipling
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Kipling