GBlues
Purple Belt
Ok, I was in another thread, and apparently I'm not a very good communicator so I thought I would start a new thread about a different subject, but kind of in a round about way related, to the other thread. Have any of you ever given thought to the purpose of an attack? What is the reason for why someone would attack YOU? Well, if you haven't I have, for a very long time and the conclusion that I have come up with, is there are only two reasons for why people attack other people. The two reasons as I see it, are these 1) to cause serious injury to the person being attacked, or 2) to cause death to the person being attacked. Now I would like to talk about these one at a time.
1) Serious injury to the person being attacked: I view this as anything that is going to leave you in the hospital. Broken bones, serious knife wounds, gunshot wounds etc. Anything that is going to put you out of commission for awhile. Now, there are some inadvertant repercussions that can come from these things, for the person that was attacked. Time off of work, bills not being paid, vehicles being repossesed do to not being able to attend work, cause your arm is in a cast. Serious stress on a marriage, and home life, due to not having money to pay the bills. Your whole life may change in the blink of an eye. Now, these are not absolutes, because they depend on your job, and on how strong your marriage is depending on if your married. Also, the lack of work, if you've saved up money for a rainy day this may not really have any affect on you, but your getting where I'm going with this. At least I hope you get where I'm going with this.
2)THe other reason, is the attacker really wants to kill you. He wants to end your life. Anyway that he can find to do it, he's going try it. THere is no talking to this guy there is no, reasoning with him, his intent is to kill.
Now in between there are varying degrees of responses to this. However, I don't care if it's my best friend in the whole world. If he gets angry and loses it, he is not thinking about beating me up. He isn't thinking of anything at all, except one thing, ending the life of the person he feels is responsible for that anger. Period. People can say whatever they want, there is only one reason to fight, and that is either to stop someone from doing serious bodily injury to you as a person, or to stop them from killing you. Now, obviously we all say, well in a life or death situation, I'd do what was necassary to protect myself if i meant that I had to kill the other guy. Really? I keep reading about various degrees of response. Let me put this another way also.
(Short Fictional Story)
It's new's years night. All of your buddies are drinking and having a good time. Your a little tipsy, and goofy, but everythings cool. Your making the rounds here and there talking to everybody, and just in general it's a really good night. You come up on your best friends, wife or fiance', or even just a girlfriend. She's had a few too many, but she's hangning in there. You know she and George, ( your bestfriend) have been having some relationship issues, but nothing they can't resolve. In her drunken stupor she begins to tell you ALL about it. Being the good friend that you are you tell her, " Look, Rosie, it's really none of my business, but George loves you and you two will work it out." This makes her feel so much better that before you can react she reaches out and kisses you on the cheek. Unfortunately for her, and you George sees this. In his drunken stupor he goes into a blind rage, at such a small thing as a kiss on the cheek. He just starts swinging at you. Doing everything in his power to inflict as much damage to you as is possible. ( end story)
Now, make no mistake at this moment in the story George wants to inflict as much damage and injury to his buddy as he can. Perhaps even death. Sure tomorrow morning when he finds out what happened he'll feel really bad, but, right now he doesn't care. His old lady just kissed you, he sees it as an afront to his manhood, and wants you to pay for her mistake.
Now this is your best friend, and he wants to kill you at this moment, or cause serious bodily injury. Your responses could be to subdue him if your good enough. Try and defuse the situation by the use of parries and blending techniques. Fight fire with fire, and just take the guy out. Now if you take the guy out, this is your bestfriend, he's never flown off the handle like this before, but at the moment he's deadly. He's jumped from all around good guy, to the preverbial psycho killer. He's gone from one mentality to the other, in the drop of a hat. Now let's make matters worse he produces a knife. Remember this is your bestfriend trying to end your life. Now, the other party goers might get involved and try to stop this senselessness, but probably they are just going to call the cops. By the time they get there you may be cut to ribbons.
You going to hit this guy in the mouth and hope that, that pulls him out of his idiotic, rage? OR do you break the guys arm or kill him? Remember, he is your bestfriend. You don't want to kill the guy, or cause serious injury but, he just upped the stakes by about a 1000. You decide that you want to keep your friend. So he slashes at you with the knife. Your lucky enough to get around it without being cut and land a decent but not to hard of a punch on the side of the guys head. He drops like a rock! Your aim was off, and you hit harder than you wanted too, and got him in the temple. He ain't breathing, anymore, you just killed your bestfriend trying to spare his life, for him being stupid. Or you go for the throw, and get it, and he lands on his head, and breaks his neck! OR you break his arm, and he goes into shock.
My point being this there are alot of bad things that can happen in this scenario. You could have just thrown water in his face and that may have stopped it, probably not, but it works on dogs. You could have thrown him, and the fight stopped, and everything get worked out and then continue to the party. He'd have few bruises from the fall, but he's really no worse for wear. However, in this situation is it worth risking your life, because someone else wants to do you harm?
My opinion personally is that it doesn't matter who the person is, or what there background. When they want to attack someone, it's for one of two reasons, and no other. I have seen one brother pull a knife on the other brother, and thank god for both of them I happened to be there, and was stupid enough to get involved. I'm talking real brothers, flesh and blood, born from the same mother, having the same father. THey share the same DNA, but one lost it, and wanted to kill the other. So I don't believe it's to far of a stretch to say, " If a man attacks you he wants to kill you." If a brother will do something like that or even attempt it, a perfect strangers got no problem with it. Chew on that for awhile.:asian:
1) Serious injury to the person being attacked: I view this as anything that is going to leave you in the hospital. Broken bones, serious knife wounds, gunshot wounds etc. Anything that is going to put you out of commission for awhile. Now, there are some inadvertant repercussions that can come from these things, for the person that was attacked. Time off of work, bills not being paid, vehicles being repossesed do to not being able to attend work, cause your arm is in a cast. Serious stress on a marriage, and home life, due to not having money to pay the bills. Your whole life may change in the blink of an eye. Now, these are not absolutes, because they depend on your job, and on how strong your marriage is depending on if your married. Also, the lack of work, if you've saved up money for a rainy day this may not really have any affect on you, but your getting where I'm going with this. At least I hope you get where I'm going with this.
2)THe other reason, is the attacker really wants to kill you. He wants to end your life. Anyway that he can find to do it, he's going try it. THere is no talking to this guy there is no, reasoning with him, his intent is to kill.
Now in between there are varying degrees of responses to this. However, I don't care if it's my best friend in the whole world. If he gets angry and loses it, he is not thinking about beating me up. He isn't thinking of anything at all, except one thing, ending the life of the person he feels is responsible for that anger. Period. People can say whatever they want, there is only one reason to fight, and that is either to stop someone from doing serious bodily injury to you as a person, or to stop them from killing you. Now, obviously we all say, well in a life or death situation, I'd do what was necassary to protect myself if i meant that I had to kill the other guy. Really? I keep reading about various degrees of response. Let me put this another way also.
(Short Fictional Story)
It's new's years night. All of your buddies are drinking and having a good time. Your a little tipsy, and goofy, but everythings cool. Your making the rounds here and there talking to everybody, and just in general it's a really good night. You come up on your best friends, wife or fiance', or even just a girlfriend. She's had a few too many, but she's hangning in there. You know she and George, ( your bestfriend) have been having some relationship issues, but nothing they can't resolve. In her drunken stupor she begins to tell you ALL about it. Being the good friend that you are you tell her, " Look, Rosie, it's really none of my business, but George loves you and you two will work it out." This makes her feel so much better that before you can react she reaches out and kisses you on the cheek. Unfortunately for her, and you George sees this. In his drunken stupor he goes into a blind rage, at such a small thing as a kiss on the cheek. He just starts swinging at you. Doing everything in his power to inflict as much damage to you as is possible. ( end story)
Now, make no mistake at this moment in the story George wants to inflict as much damage and injury to his buddy as he can. Perhaps even death. Sure tomorrow morning when he finds out what happened he'll feel really bad, but, right now he doesn't care. His old lady just kissed you, he sees it as an afront to his manhood, and wants you to pay for her mistake.
Now this is your best friend, and he wants to kill you at this moment, or cause serious bodily injury. Your responses could be to subdue him if your good enough. Try and defuse the situation by the use of parries and blending techniques. Fight fire with fire, and just take the guy out. Now if you take the guy out, this is your bestfriend, he's never flown off the handle like this before, but at the moment he's deadly. He's jumped from all around good guy, to the preverbial psycho killer. He's gone from one mentality to the other, in the drop of a hat. Now let's make matters worse he produces a knife. Remember this is your bestfriend trying to end your life. Now, the other party goers might get involved and try to stop this senselessness, but probably they are just going to call the cops. By the time they get there you may be cut to ribbons.
You going to hit this guy in the mouth and hope that, that pulls him out of his idiotic, rage? OR do you break the guys arm or kill him? Remember, he is your bestfriend. You don't want to kill the guy, or cause serious injury but, he just upped the stakes by about a 1000. You decide that you want to keep your friend. So he slashes at you with the knife. Your lucky enough to get around it without being cut and land a decent but not to hard of a punch on the side of the guys head. He drops like a rock! Your aim was off, and you hit harder than you wanted too, and got him in the temple. He ain't breathing, anymore, you just killed your bestfriend trying to spare his life, for him being stupid. Or you go for the throw, and get it, and he lands on his head, and breaks his neck! OR you break his arm, and he goes into shock.
My point being this there are alot of bad things that can happen in this scenario. You could have just thrown water in his face and that may have stopped it, probably not, but it works on dogs. You could have thrown him, and the fight stopped, and everything get worked out and then continue to the party. He'd have few bruises from the fall, but he's really no worse for wear. However, in this situation is it worth risking your life, because someone else wants to do you harm?
My opinion personally is that it doesn't matter who the person is, or what there background. When they want to attack someone, it's for one of two reasons, and no other. I have seen one brother pull a knife on the other brother, and thank god for both of them I happened to be there, and was stupid enough to get involved. I'm talking real brothers, flesh and blood, born from the same mother, having the same father. THey share the same DNA, but one lost it, and wanted to kill the other. So I don't believe it's to far of a stretch to say, " If a man attacks you he wants to kill you." If a brother will do something like that or even attempt it, a perfect strangers got no problem with it. Chew on that for awhile.:asian: