Quote: (07-13-2015 10:23 PM)Gorgiass Wrote:
Quote: (07-13-2015 08:52 PM)Natural Born Gyalist Wrote:
For the record your belt is the best improvised weapon you have against a knife. The belt while being mostly non lethal (unledd used as a garrote) is a long range weapon in comparison to a knife.
Nah, a boot to the assailant's balls is the best weapon you have, although I always carry a quality 3.5" knife, and occasionally carry a .45 where it's legal. It really and truly blows my mind on these threads how many guys say they would stand back and watch someone being stabbed/beaten to death. Brings to mind the old "first they came for the socialists" quote and makes an interesting juxtaposition to the cheers videos like the Russian boxer knocking out the several drunk dudes receive. Everyone wants to see justice done, but few want to be inconvenienced to see it happen.
I've talked my way out of far more fights than I've been in, which honestly is just a few (not counting hundreds of rounds of throwing on some boxing gloves and full force sparring with buddies) but I am not being an internet tough guy when I say that I'd jump in without even thinking, armed or not, as would any of the guys I grew up sparring with. I've heard of crazier shit they jumped into. It's not that it's alpha, or even logical, but it helps create the kind of world I want to live in. When I step in to answer a guy's question on a forum dealing with some ofmy other interests, or yield rather than accelerating into a roundabout it's the same idea at a much lesser scale - giving up some time to further that pay it forward reciprocity and make that world a little bit more likely. The same reason I'm replying here, judging by the trend I'll catch nothing but heat, but I want to live in a world where the guy next to me would have my back if some psycho jumped, just like I'd have his. Because we are part of the same tribe at some level of human non-psychos if nothing else. It's a thankless task in this case since we now know the guy was a SJW pudwacker, but it could just as easily have been the cop in Vegas who had the same thing happen, or the guy who's researching the anti-cancer protein which might save my dad's life in 4 years.
Maybe it's a cultural thing, maybe it's just a forum thing. I think it's unfortunate either way.
That's your choice to make, as a young Spock would say, "morally praiseworthy but not morally obligatory." The legal, financial, and safety risk aren't worth it to me. Saying it makes someone beta to not risk their life for another male, who is too weak to defend himself is patently ridiculous. Assuming I was lucky enough to win, I'm pretty sure cell phone videos of my 195lb shaved headed, lilly white ass stomping a black 18 year old kids head into the floor wouldn't play out real well in the media. I can already hear the "he was just a kid... it was just the drugs he was a good boy... he was a trained fighter he coulda Steven Seagalled that knife right outta his hand!"
As the Hodge twins would say, "Do whatever the fuck, you wanna do!"
"The point is, marriage is stupid. Every year there are a million hot, new 22-year olds going into bars, and call me glass-half-full, but I think they're getting dumber." -Barney Stinson