This is why you must train a live Martial Art or you'll end up with ego delusions!
01-17-2015, 11:39 AM
Whenever the topic of self-defense arises on ANY kind of forum, it's always the same clusterfuck and the same points appear over and over again:
"Learn the antique Aikido art to flow through your enemies like my sensei said!"
"Why you gonna learn punching huh? BUY A GUN!"
"Pfeh, self-defense, my hanzo steel katana will simply cut through my foes!"
"Bro all self-defense is pointless, just learn to run away from any comfrontation, never visit anything even remotely dangerous, live in a safe sheltered neighborhood and in a castle and never go out!"
"Pleabians, just become a millionaire and then you won't ever have to worry about self-defense, just hire an army of bodyguards!"
"Self-defense is good, but self-reliance is better! Start by doing 8 sets of 12 reps of eating cockroaches and bugs in the forest, supplement with reading the Turner Diaries in the evening"
"Man you can get mortally injured by just falling on concrete and breaking your skull open, so thus I conclude that all self-defense is pointless!"
Every single time these arguments get brought out, and every single time they're pointlessly irrelevant to the topic at hand
Or, you know, you could just learn to fight, feel like a man who could defend himself if push comes to shove and move on with your life while assessing the usefulness and danger of each hostile encounter you'll ever be part in
"Learn the antique Aikido art to flow through your enemies like my sensei said!"
"Why you gonna learn punching huh? BUY A GUN!"
"Pfeh, self-defense, my hanzo steel katana will simply cut through my foes!"
"Bro all self-defense is pointless, just learn to run away from any comfrontation, never visit anything even remotely dangerous, live in a safe sheltered neighborhood and in a castle and never go out!"
"Pleabians, just become a millionaire and then you won't ever have to worry about self-defense, just hire an army of bodyguards!"
"Self-defense is good, but self-reliance is better! Start by doing 8 sets of 12 reps of eating cockroaches and bugs in the forest, supplement with reading the Turner Diaries in the evening"
"Man you can get mortally injured by just falling on concrete and breaking your skull open, so thus I conclude that all self-defense is pointless!"
Every single time these arguments get brought out, and every single time they're pointlessly irrelevant to the topic at hand
Or, you know, you could just learn to fight, feel like a man who could defend himself if push comes to shove and move on with your life while assessing the usefulness and danger of each hostile encounter you'll ever be part in