content: It is a shit situation where you have to have situational awareness at a friendly neighborhood bar. It is even a further shit situation where a fight goes -THIS- bad and immediately people set to blaming -YOU- for getting your ass kicked. I know you didn't do that, but that seems to be people's default assumption - and namely people who have never been in fights before or had to defend anyone before. I've been hit in the eye a few times, even had my eye closed once. Never been as bad as this. This is an injury that very easily could have lost me my eye. This is not "a brawl at a bar". This is a lack of respect for human life. And I didn't pick a fight. The guy was trying to fight everyone, I am just the one who stood up for myself most vocally. He was pushing people and getting in people's faces, and I am the only one who said "fuck this kid" and attempted to square off with him. But before I had even turned around it was over. That's not a human being. That is an animal. And we're not in the fucking forest. So now our situational awareness had to include the animals among us? That's fucked.