Originally posted by Laughing Cow
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I get a feeling you don’t have much life-experience.
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Does anybody? Life-experience must be defined in context of the subject. I don’t have much experience as a Mandarin interpreter, but I’m a darn good programmer. I don’t have much experience in politics, but I’m very good at public speaking.
It is amazing to me that so many people “get a feeling” about something without knowing any facts.
I can appreciate Scythe’s situation because I’ve been in a similar encounter. A logical person might say
“Similar encounter” = life-experience.
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The point is NOT not to fight but rather get beat up, but NOT to get into a situation where there is a need to fight.
Or to de-escalate the situation that there is NO need to fight.
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I’ll agree it is best NOT to fight. But sometimes you must.
NEXT time read what I wrote and don’t read what YOU think I wrote.
Your comment about women not being wanted to be acosted is a prime example of that.
Perhaps I did misunderstand what your are trying to say.
I guess I was going off topic.
Agreed, it’s true most women don’t like guys who fight a lot.
I think a guy who likes to fight and looks for fights does his family a disservice by continuing that activity.
OK, three guys approach you in mall parking lot. They start making rude remarks about your wife and teenage daughter. Why? I don’t know. What do you do? Talk them down? It happened to me. There was very little talk on my part, but they each apologized afterwards.
And off topic again: I think that a family man has a bigger obligation to handle situations quickly and decisively and if that means use of force then force must be applied.
On topic: I think use of force is justified even in matters of honor. I think in Scythe’s case there is a matter of honor at stake.
And please don’t pull a quote from Bartletts.
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Also your fighting strategy in your last posts shows your attitude and experience level in real life situation.
And your level of MA experience too.
In your case I think a RPG would be better suited than MA training for self defense.
My guess is you don’t have a Family yet.
Cheers. [/B]
I am a very blessed, happily married family man. Next to God, family is the most important thing in my life. I’m an MA student.
I will always be a student. Of the few encounters I’ve faced, the first attack was the most important.
BTW, do you know where I can get an RPG?