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- From: wrat@unisql.UUCP (wharfie)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: attack vs. harmony
- Message-ID: <4448@unisql.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 16:26:47 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.010116.6325@desire.wright.edu> <4431@unisql.UUCP> <1992Dec24.231856.6361@desire.wright.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec24.231856.6361@desire.wright.edu> jchristian@desire.wright.edu writes:
- >What if I'm walking down the street one night on the college nightclub strip
- >and some guy swing at me out of nowhere? Do I have to wait for him to attack?
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- (Uhh, hasn't he already attacked you?) To help illustrate my
- way of thinking, I'd move so that the punch didn't hit me, and perhaps
- apply some controlling technique so that I could assess his intentions
- instead of kicking him in the head two or three times and then breaking
- his legs...
-
- >Is the attacker always going to be the one who's breaking the harmony? Is it
- >possible for the defender to break the harmony by not dealing with the
- >confrontation? And does it even matter? I assume it does, so that we don't
-
- Ideally, there should be no confrontation. The person who initiates
- conflict is disrupting harmonious existence. I think that my responsibilty
- is to eliminate that conflict. If a person shoves me all I must do is
- allow that force to slide harmlessly past. If a person tries to stick me
- with a knife I may have to hurt him to make it impossible for him to disrupt
- the harmony of my bodily functions :-) but it would be an error to continue
- my attack once he is rendered harmless.
- wr
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