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Otherwise, the drummer for power pop band Jimmy Eat World might have been inclined to get involved when he found himself in a front-row seat during the infamous Vans Warped Tour brawl featuring D12 and Esham.
"I figured I wasn't packing any heat so I was going to stay out of it," Lind laughs.
"I didn't really see the actual fight very well, but I saw everybody rushing over there towards it and then I saw afterwards everyone from D12 rushing into their bus and they also had a van that they were all trying to get into.
"There was this whole posse trying to flee the scene on this huge bus. It was like, 'Good luck.' "
It's doubtful Lind and the rest of his mates will run into any rough stuff during their current stint on the Edgefest tour, which brings them to the Saddledome tonight.
The Arizona-based quartet will be joining their more famous, more naked friends, blink-182, on the bill.
The relationship, in Jimmy Eat World's case, is a catch-22 situation.
They've definitely benefited from having the boys of blink name-check them -- they also performed at blink-182 member Tom DeLonge's wedding -- but at the same time they also find themselves being unfairly lumped in with the sophomoric pop punk pack.
"For some reason, we get referenced to blink-182 and it's something where I don't see it at all," Lind says.
"But the thing is, we know those guys and we're friends with those guys and they've helped us a lot. They tell everyone that they like us a lot, so people start to associate us with them.
"But, it's a completely different kind of record."
Jimmy Eat World's fourth and latest release, Bleed American, actually has more in common with a band like Weezer and what they do than blink.
It's chock full of superbly crafted pop rock tracks with exceptional harmonies and intelligent songwriting.
According to Lind, it's an album the band members are particularly proud of because it was made on their own dime after they'd been dumped by their former label, Capitol, and was picked up and released as-is by their new label, DreamWorks.
Subsequently it's also an album that Lind considers the most true statement of Jimmy Eat World's music to date.
"We didn't really have any outside entity giving us any kind of information or input on what they wanted, and it was kind of nice," he says.
"Although it was painful for us to write those cheques, in the end it gave us more satisfaction than we would ever have known.
"This record is really meaning a lot to us at this time and we're trying to do everything we can to get it out there."