The Slightest Provocation
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Auf Grosser Fahrt
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I don't have as much control as most of you seem to. If I walk into a place I quickly size up everyone there based, sorry, upon appearances, which is all I have at that moment.
If you look like the average Joe that takes showers and wears clothes that fit, and seem clean-cut by my defintion, then I'm friendly and polite.
If you look like a gangsta rapper wannabe, sorry again, but I just can't fake it. You don't get smiles and friendlies from me. You don't get me talkin' smack, either, for no reason, but ain't gonna be no hellos-how are ya, or sirs or ma'ams.
And I do know that you can look like crud and be just the nicest fella. Not big of me, I guess. Least I'm aware.
If you look like the average Joe that takes showers and wears clothes that fit, and seem clean-cut by my defintion, then I'm friendly and polite.
If you look like a gangsta rapper wannabe, sorry again, but I just can't fake it. You don't get smiles and friendlies from me. You don't get me talkin' smack, either, for no reason, but ain't gonna be no hellos-how are ya, or sirs or ma'ams.
And I do know that you can look like crud and be just the nicest fella. Not big of me, I guess. Least I'm aware.
Deltaboy1984
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As a Older Minister I am duty bound to act in a manner that Honors Jesus. But just because I act extra nice and turn the other cheek and I follow Gen. Lee's Code which I summerized as " We are to always be found acting like Gentleman."
I was buck wild in my younger years and ran with a rough and rowdy crowd I seen and learned how to be as mean as a Junkyard Dog from some of the best. The last time I had to act nasty was with a panhandler in Fort Worth who was harrassing my wife and child.
I was buck wild in my younger years and ran with a rough and rowdy crowd I seen and learned how to be as mean as a Junkyard Dog from some of the best. The last time I had to act nasty was with a panhandler in Fort Worth who was harrassing my wife and child.
Loosedhorse
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Sounds like that is still acting like a Gentleman.
Captain33036
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What I believe is becoming more important, for self defense, is to be a student of human psychology. Self defense must include being able to "size someone up" well before any interaction. And that means being able to determine from the smallest of traits, who may be a sociopath, and who might be a psychopath (or have those traits or tendancies...since rarely do you meet someone who is fully over in the spectrum).
There are important differences.
Another observation.....and trying to be politically correct and sensitive to whomever might take this the wrong way, but...my personal observation has is that the less a person has, the more they value your respecting them. Thus, we must be aware that there are street people who WILL kill you, just for disrespecting them.
And with respect to the predator argument, I think you can respect from a position of inner strength, giving nothing away. Respect does not have to be being submissive or weak.
I hope this is relevant.
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There are important differences.
Another observation.....and trying to be politically correct and sensitive to whomever might take this the wrong way, but...my personal observation has is that the less a person has, the more they value your respecting them. Thus, we must be aware that there are street people who WILL kill you, just for disrespecting them.
And with respect to the predator argument, I think you can respect from a position of inner strength, giving nothing away. Respect does not have to be being submissive or weak.
I hope this is relevant.
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J
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I think how one is sized up is still a primary concern at least to me. When I think of all the people that could have the opportunity to do me harm on a daily basis and how much that would consume me by evaluating them all I have come to the conclusion that some initial eye contact and then observing hands and keeping aware of my surroundings while presenting myself with enough confidence to be at least a difficult target gets me by pretty well.
If only we could choreograph what attack may befall us so that there was plenty of time to evaluate our choices and opportunities but in reality I believe it is quite the opposite and the bad guy is the one who has had the chance to do the studying.
If only we could choreograph what attack may befall us so that there was plenty of time to evaluate our choices and opportunities but in reality I believe it is quite the opposite and the bad guy is the one who has had the chance to do the studying.
Captain33036
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Someone said it above, force is the LAST resort.
One of the points I was trying to get at was that by increasing your ability to assess a person or situation, you can increase the number of opportunites to avoid an encounter.
Looking for signs and signals early on, can ...and should trigger opporunities to disengage.
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One of the points I was trying to get at was that by increasing your ability to assess a person or situation, you can increase the number of opportunites to avoid an encounter.
Looking for signs and signals early on, can ...and should trigger opporunities to disengage.
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And that is my point on choreography, I'm not discounting your view so much as what I perceive as its limited value when (I have no idea of the ratio) many attacks come from a point of little or no warning regardless of how vigilant we may try to be.
Many criminal assaults such as robbery, rape, and murder by their very nature are ambush style attacks so the criminal works from a stacked deck, in the case of insult, mental illness, and I'm sure others there many be indications of impending attack so I don't disqualify your view only want to point out other possibilities.
Many criminal assaults such as robbery, rape, and murder by their very nature are ambush style attacks so the criminal works from a stacked deck, in the case of insult, mental illness, and I'm sure others there many be indications of impending attack so I don't disqualify your view only want to point out other possibilities.
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