Even with a weapon design to decapitate someone you can have trouble doing so. In some cases it took over 40+ chops of an executioners ax on a pedestal designed for it to chop off a head. The practice was the reason the French invented the guillotine it was tame by comparison.Kogarian said:I'm sure if you worked at it long enough, eventually you would.xxhazyshadowsxx said:You can't decapitate somebody with a pen.
That is all.
There is this thing called bone which runs through a persons neck, makes it very hard to cut through unless you happen to hit just right and just level enough, and with just enough force to get your blade to work between them. Sword decapitations would pretty much not happen, unless you really worked at it. A pen would be even less likely even if you worked at it.
Sadly this is another case where Hollywood has let everyone down. In their zeal to sensationalize everything they have given many unrealistic expectations of what can and cannot be done.
As far as on topic is concerned:
Should someone walk up and punch me I would fight. Not for the fact that I was looking for a fight, those days are behind me. A person walking up and punching another is in the mood to fight, and is going to have one. Even if they where just trying to act tough I have to assume that he is in fact trying to start a fight and is willing to carry on regardless of my actions.