Thursday, April 03, 2008
What's your threshold for pain?
How much would you take before you lashed back? How much would you listen to before you let it get to you and make you want to give as good as you get? Till when would you play along with a joke and at what point would it lose its humor and become an insult?
How much would you bleed before you fight back? For how long would you grit your teeth and not hit back? What would it take to get you to deliberately hurt someone? Could you be pushed to the limit where you don't stop till long after your opponent has gone down? Could you be merciless, heartless to someone else's pain?
At what point would you agree to have someone killed? Could you kill someone in a moment of passion or in self-defense? What if you absolutely had to chose between your life and the person's in front of you? Or a loved ones life and the person in front of you? Or between your life and a loved ones life? If you had to kill someone, would you be able to look into that person's eye and pull the trigger? Or would you rather do it non-violently and in absentia? Could you deliberately kill someone?
So, what's your threshold for pain?
by nutty at 11:41 PM |
7 Comments:
Intense...its 3:00 p.m and I am longing for the weekend to start. Not in a frame to comment on such a serious topic...will drop by later.
Yes, I can kill someone, but usually the laziness and cheer in me get the better of this emotion. At some point, obviously I am ready to snap... I follow strict numbers, one insult I let go, two and I grit my teeth, three and I try to (usually unsuccessfully) respond and at the fourth I start distancing myself. It works with friends, but not with professional colleagues.
At office, I usually do not encourage 'insulting comments'. I usually just say "that went too far. I am not amused. Please take it back and apologise". For a cheerful smiling person like me, delivering such a line with a straight face in a monotone works. And if it goes on for far too long, thanks to encouragement from bosses and super-bosses (trust me it happened once) I quit the company.
Better to put a distance and surround yourselves with happy thoughts and people, than the ones filled with vicious barbs. Life is too short to trade insults gal :)
yaar, I am not the right person to speak on such matters.
I believe a lot in self respect & at times of course I have bitten my tongue & let it lie down; but I dont let myself being romped over and I think neither should anyone.
I am easy going as long as things are easy going its cool. If its a friend I tell him/her to watch it; if its office I take the person seperately and tell him/her to watch it.
frankly its ppl who are bitter inside who like to hurt others, so you shouldnt feel bad about "hurting them"; if you dont they will think you are a coward and keep at it.
shit happens but then you need to tell them to watch it.
if you are tru to yourself I dont think such matters should arise. honest.
Very low, if I just say it off the top of my head!
But if I think about it, I have a lot of endurance... and the problem is that it extends onto me harming myself just so that the other person is not harmed...
Looks like a series of thought-provoking posts from all of us :)
errrr.....not sure....but i sure feeling like killing people many many times!
I'm going to give a common reply this time :)
I guess if you can keep your head about you and behave rationally in a situation then your threshold isn't reached yet.
Most of the questions were rhetorical but the thing I wanted to get to was - at what point would your baser instincts get the better of you and make you lose all self-control?
I know that if I think about it, I really can't believe I could be pushed to murder, even in self defense. It's when it comes to choosing between 2 lives, neither of which are my own, that stumps me!
As for a physical fights, I would never get into a physical fight. Ever! But verbal tiffs my threshold is way too low. Anything can trigger my losing control in anger. Sad, yes! I know! :(
This is way too serious a start to the weekend! sigh! I so agree with you Chaitali!
I don't think I've any threshold at all. I've blasted people for trivial things. And at times, I've taken Major crap from people. I think it depends on your mood and stress levels and of course, morning coffee ;)
Sometimes, you just wanna let go.. and sometimes you have had enough from world, so next person in line gets it :P
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