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Originally Posted by MBates
Incredibly strict?!
Guy #1 - Hey, wanna fight?
Guy #2 - Ok.
Yep...its a veritable labyrinth of legal technicalities.
And society officially condones it...hence it is not illegal even if we think it is not really worth much as a behaviour.
You and the group of people you associate with may look down on it (and you would hardly be alone) but that is precisely what condone means:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/condone
Police might arrest you - temporarily to stop you. But its not illegal so then you get let go. Sort of like getting a penalty in a hockey fight I guess.  |
Even if two people are 100% in agreement that they'd like to fight each other, if one gets hurt, consent becomes void. If someone feels pressured or cornered into a fight, or needs to defend themselves from someone who wants to fight, there is no consent. Lots of issues where fighting is not legal. And that's just the act between the two people, it's illegal to fight on public property.
This is not considering the fact that I think the type of utopian version of fighting you're talking about where two gentlemen agree to meet when the clock strikes 19:00 and exchange fisticuffs up to but not including the extent of any injury plainly doesn't exist.
And no, society does not officially condone it. Even based on the dictionary definition of condone. Unless you're living in a backwards society where fights are never broken up, no attempt is made to stop them, police are never called, etc, but simply walked by/stared at/cheered on.