Intervention on a domestic dispute--would you get involved?

daver wrote: Domestics are difficult. Often both parties will turn on you. Obvious distress is subjective, unfortunately. Before I inadvertently got in the middle of one too many of these things, I would have called in a second. Now, not so much. BUT- were I to see someone punching/hitting/choking etc. someone, I'm still calling. From a safe distance, as long as we aren't talking about a brawl that needs to be broken up.

Obviously these are general statements, and each situation must be examined by itself to determine a "proper" and ethical course of action. "Mind yer own bizniz" can only carry so far.

Exactly. Both of them will turn on you and you'll be the bad guy.