In support of the rage of man

[Yonadav]

Rage supporter, I have one question for you: do you support the natural rage to occur in any situation? 

Let me set up a scenario for you, one in which I believe the rage should be supported.

It is a customer and store employee scenario.

Let's the say the customer is being a complete twat. Should the store employee give into his natural rage and say whatever he wants to the customer?

My answer is yes, but is it also yours?

My answer to the first question is not so much that I'd support natural rage all the time-- restraint is expected.  However, except for real psychos, it doesn't come out of nowhere.  Sometimes, people fuck with a man.  They can see the storm brewing, but they are on some rant of their own and don't think he'll start swinging.  Then he does start swinging (or even just shouting), and it's a bad day for everyone.

I can give a few examples of my own rage, but I'll start with one.  Keep in mind I live in Korea.  I was approaching a tunnel, and the posted speed sign for the tunnel was 40km, which is quite slow.  I was also changing lanes, because you aren't allowed to change lanes inside the tunnel.  I had my signal light on.  In my rearview, I see some guy in a sports car bombing toward me doing about 100 in the lane I was moving to.  But I'm already in the lane well before he arrives at my position, and I'm very clearly going the speed limit.

He goes fucking crazy honking at me.  We get out of the tunnel (both doing the posted speed of 40).  He quickly pulls around me, still honking, STOPS in front of me, and gets out of his car.  It's a young punk, a bit gangster-looking, too young to own a car like that unless his daddy's a CEO for Samsung or something. He approaches my car, screaming bloody murder in Korean.

That's when I trigger.  I get out of the car shouting, and believe me I had every intention of putting the fucker in the hospital.  There was nothing in me that had the capacity to resist the urge to introduce his face to the pavement except his fairly remarkable running speed.  He saw a big fucking white dude charging him in an army coat (I'm not IN the army, just have the coat because it's like the best coat ever).  He changed his mind about how tough he was, jumped in his car, and drove off with a bennyboy-sized fist indentation on his trunk.

Now, legally, I was all kinds of wrong if I got my hands on him.  But I think that threat needs to be there-- we shouldn't be so cocksure in our expectations of civility that we'll just dump on some big dude, and ignore the constant implied threat there-- that if you want to tee off on someone, they might decide to rip off your arm and beat you to fucking death with it.

In my opinion, you would not have been all kinds of wrong if you had gotten your hands on him-- if he had kept coming toward you. Once they're running away, you have to let them go. But he pursued you. He stopped you. And if he had continued to advance on you then he deserves whatever happens to him. And that's not even taking his very dangerous road rage into account. People who menace other people with motor vehicles really are menacing with a deadly  weapon. So it's no wonder that you were hot as hell.

In America, we are starting to have a very serious problem with people going around and deliberately provoking other people, simply because they disagree with them. They are intentionally trying to provoke some pretty serious shit. They are stalking people and harassing them while they are eating at restaurants. They are showing up at their homes and menacing them. They are going to their employers and trying to get them fired. They are running up to people and punching them, and then running away. They are trying to provoke some serious shit.

You might have seen this video before. This is a video of some real losers who are using a woman to try to provoke some guys into 'assaulting' her, so that they can play the victim in a big news story about a woman being assaulted at a demonstration. It pretty much backfires on them, and they look like total losers, and it's funny. But it's not really funny. This kind of shit is going somewhere really bad. Watching the tough blackclad guy with a bandanna covering his face act like a tough guy while hiding behind the crazy white girl who is attacking a guy who appears to be Native American or Hispanic is pretty funny. Fucking losers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5g5WTPf8J4