Rogue- I don’t mean to personally attack you, I don’t even know you, BUT since you replied directly to my post with direct questions to myself, hear goes:
a) Nothing you say will change my mind. As quoted, “and in my opinion, doing nothing is pure unaldulterated cowardice”
That’s what I believe, sorry if my beliefs don’t run in line with yours…
b) “What if a person is more brave than effective and getting involved but failing makes it worse for the victim?”
what if, what if, what if, what if, SORRY but in my experience the moment you DO hesitate with a “what if”, especially if it’s you being attacked, is the moment you’re most likely to get your a$$ handed to you…“what if” comments are usually reserved for cowards or pascifist.
If you’re not that effective I suggest learning a martial art that will make you effective.
What if NP had done nothing, not even made it known that someone saw what was going on? They could have just killed the guy then, since there were no witnesses…
Frankly it’s YOUR type of attitude that makes me sick, I believe that any true martial artist would have done something, and NP did what he thought was the best to do in that situation, and may have saved a life.
You don’t have to be a hero by jumping in and whooping everyone’s a$$, but by NP showing the guts he has by doing something (using his brain, not his muscle) ALSO shows that he has intestinal fortitude and a sense of honor to himself. I would be willing to bet that if he had done nothing at all and later had found out that the guy had been killed, it would be hard to live with himself and that would have haunted him for years to come.
That, my friend, is the difference from being a coward, and being brave.
