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If you practice tolerance and try to understand how people think, you may avoid fights. Avoidance is the best strategy since nobody really wins a fight. Simple arguments over something minor may escalate into a fight that may end in your death or incarceration. Fights may be unprovoked or provoked.

Unprovoked fights begin when, without justification, someone attacks you. The attack may come physically or verbally, the only difference being the degree of aggression.

Provoked fights begin when you:

Without justification, physically or verbally attack another person and the other person retaliates by attacking you.

Without justification, verbally attack another person, the person gets angry, and you attack in response to the person's anger.

As Taekwondo students, we should avoid conflict but be prepared for it if it is inevitable. If it is inevitable, we must end it as quickly as possible and be willing to accept the consequences.

You must be responsible for your own actions but you not responsible for the actions of others, unless you have a duty to be responsible, such as when you are the parent or the boss. While you must react to a situation and protect yourself or your family, you still have some responsibility for the damage you cause, so you must avoid doing unnecessary damage to an attacker.

Since most fights are an escalation from a minor disagreement, you should be able to recognize escalation and avoid it or diffuse it. Escalation is caused by both parties not backing down. When one party eases up, the escalation eases or stops. If you are escalating a fight, then you are provoking the other person into fighting and have no right to claim you were provoked. You can end most confrontations by safely walking away.

In a fight, the aggressor is not the one that throws the first punch, but the one who insists on fighting. If you ever get into a fight, it should be because you are forced into it. Take every opportunity you can to get out of it. Leave if you can, fight only if you must! If you do get into a fight, it is usually because you missed opportunities to get out of the situation or to assess the situation properly.

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