Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

I have a friend who resorts to violence?

I know he doesn't know how to react to certain situations, how to control himself, or how to not let his ego get hurt. I just want some idea of what to say to him. He'll even threaten to beat me up if he tries to insult me and I turn it around on him and he won't know what else to say. He could beat me up but I'm not afraid of him, so I don't care. I'll say anything to him, just looking for some ideas.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. - Issac Asimov

Update:

We are both 25, can't really go tell his mom on him, but thanks.

Update 2:

I have told him many times that he should go into anger management, but he says he's "not like the rest of them" so he doesn't need it.

He does get very offended when people say certain things about it. He will get emotional or violent, very rarely violent towards other people but it has happened. A really big problem is he loves to poke fun at people and very often it gets insulting, but he can't take it in return.

Update 3:

@The Phantom Schticky He's said a few times "Maybe I just need a good *** beating. I've never really had one." And he's already spent a night or two in a holding cell.

5 Answers

Relevance
  • 9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Your friend is going to keep flexing his muscles and solving minor issues with his fists, right up to the day he finally learns there's always someone tougher than he is.

    Girls like him are usually happy if they're surrounded by emotional drama, but guys like him are only happy if they're bugging their eyes out and yelling "wanna go?" at somebody while the veins are popping out of their foreheads. I was one of those guys for a while in school, I've seen where it leads. Sooner or later he's going to go up against someone and find out that some people are just far more violent and meaner than others. Then he's going to get his *ss beat so badly he'll need medical attention and therapy, and then he'll calm down. Or he could just grow out of it.

    All you can do is wait really. Wait for him to grow up, wait for him to receive "that" beating, or wait for him to spend a few nights in the tank, and eventually he'll calm down.

  • .
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    He's just immature and has anger management problems. You're right, he can't control himself and he's weak. There's no reason to threaten your "friend" repeatedly. I have a family member that gets offended at the slightest insult (literally most sentences you say to them piss them off). It's just sad.

  • poplin
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Im talking on behalf of all catholics... i actually hate it while some those that are Christian say that u men r terrorists and stuff. it is so incorrect! after all it says interior the bible, love your enemies. on occasion it in simple terms makes me mad. you have a each and every precise achievable to assert that they are incorrect! playstation - u in simple terms jogged my memory, i in ordinary terms washed as quickly as this morning -crud!

  • 9 years ago

    he should try being a smartass and always saying the last word in a confrontation

  • How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
  • Ilove
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    if he's really your friend you would help him, maybe you could get an adult or your counselor and you could work out his "issues"

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.