I'm not trying to bring up something that has already passed because frankly I felt the argument regarding this conversation was totally irrelevant. But I did notice something fairly funny here that I had to point out. First starting with these two quotes:
Minth;704302 said:
it helps to punch the people who make your life suck in the face. Then, they're a lot nicer to you
Minth;704309 said:
I'd come home and if I said anything to him he'd punch/push me, and so one day I got fed up when he punched me and punched him back.
The second quote pretty much proves Anti-Basics point exactly.
Anti-Basic;704308 said:
Until they hit back. In which case, your life sucks more.
When you go around punching people to relieve your own stress, eventually someone is going to punch you back. In your case your dad's life obviously wasn’t peachy with him, so his solution was to vent his stress/anger physically by striking those he felt he could get away with it. However eventually the people he hit got tired of it and smacked him back, which ultimately made his life suck a little more and forced him to fear his own son.
Too many abused people fall into the same habits. Don't grow up thinking smacking people around is a good solution to your issues. One you are only making bigger issues for the ones you are striking, and two eventually someone isn't going to take your bullshit and is going to smack you back 5 times as hard and put you in your place, which very well might be jail. Which in my book makes your life suck way way more.