Helmutye said:
I do not want to make any assumptions about you, but I wonder how much experience you actually have with fighting and physical violence? Video games, movies, and even lots of folk stories always emphasize that a small person can beat a larger opponent with skill and cleverness. But in a real fight size and strength mean a whole lot more than fiction describes. If someone is twice as strong as you, you will generally need to be about 4 times more skilled than they are. I've had fighting instruction, and generally speaking fights go to the one who is bigger and stronger unless there is a large skill difference, because no matter how good you are once the big guy gets a hold of you and lifts you off the ground there's not very much you can do.
A male warrior vs a female warrior is a very different question than a normal guy vs a normal girl. Normal people do not have any fight training. And unless you have a LOT of fight training and have gone through surprise conditioning, there is a good chance that you will forget it all and be unable to do much more than simple, instinctual movements. That is why some of the more successful fighting styles build off of simple, instinctual movements, and why even a black belt in karate will probably fall victim to some thug on the street if he is attacked suddenly and overwhelmed. And rarely will you be expecting violence when it finds you.
Your defiant attitude is admirable, but in Might makes Right it will be all you have left when you meet someone stronger than you.
1. You're not helpless? Then what would you do? It requires factor beyond yourself to offset a physical advantage--that is, it requires civilized society. It requires people who value something other than physical superiority. That is my whole point!
2. Whether or not he is as great a master as he thinks, if he is good enough to beat YOU then that's good enough. Unless there is something that will make him care, if he gets his way all the time then that is all the greatness he needs. That is how it used to be--the greatest rulers were the ones that nobody else could beat and who killed all of their opponents. That is it. It took civilized concepts like law and honor and the like to offset this.
3. If you said that inspiring speech to him, and he killed you, where would you be? You would be dead. You would never say anything ever again, and if nobody else heard you he could go right on doing the same thing to others as if you never existed. He might someday meet someone who could beat him, but that doesn't change the fact that you are dead. And again, I do not want to make any assumptions about you, but you might not be so brave when actually faced with a threat on your life. It's easy to imagine yourself as fearless and uncompromising, but the vast majority of people would back down when faced with the credible threat of death or physical harm. That is why it is important that we remove those things from a civilized society--with the threat of physical violence removed, you can focus on the actual merits of ideas, and if your ideas are good and if you are persuasive and say things that people agree with, then you will find success. What you say will matter. But with Might makes Right, the only thing that matters is who says it.
wrong. strength and size mean a lot less than what people believe. strength helps, there is no denying that, but skill, determination, cleverness, and though I personally distain it, brutality, make much more of a difference. in regards to brutality, no matter how much muscle a guy packs on, his eyes and groin dont get much more resilient.
its not my fault if one chooses to be unable to fight. If you cant fight, learn to fight or just dont fight. because if you fight, I will treat you as a warrior
1. no. I would fight and die. what else is there? why would I want to offset his advantage? I want to beat him at his best! with no handicap or obstruction! there would be no other recourse. I would not want the help of anyone else. you can tell me i cannot defeat him, but there is only one way to determine that. I beat him, or I die. there is nothing else.
2. he will not win forever. more men like me will challenge him. there will be a man or woman standing in his path everywhere he goes. anywhere he seeks to subjugate others. those men you speak of led cursed lives, ever were there knives waiting for them in the hands of the defiant, or other men like them
3. and? we all die. my death is of no concern. I will never allow death to be a deterrent in itself. I am not fearless, far from it. but I am absolutely uncompromising. if I come upon that situation, then i am going to face the challenge. my death, my victory, it does not matter. the fight is important. the fight is what matters. I dont care what happens, I face an obstacle, attack it with all the strength I have for as long as it takes, and move on.
does this mean that if I ever meet an evil master martial artist who feels like pushing me around, I will die? if I cant beat them. I wouldnt have it any other way.
