Fair question #2: What is with all of this escalation?

I like to call it "One-up-man-ship". It's all about having the final say, which is ASSumed when the person makes that claim of nuclear holocaust being the ultimate possibility of an assault.

Some person asking the question, has already something that's in his minds.

Like him, people that will reply in it has different ideas, ways, means, methods and views, sometimes things depends upon the kind of experience certain person has, others use a simple initiative but some use an idiotic kind of replies not even thinking the consequences it may bring to a person, knowing that some people staying in this sections are just a kid, they make this area a playground to enjoy with, and they are not matured enough to handle their actions and their words are much aggressive compare to matured people.

You cannot demand or expect that everybody here will agree on single thoughts and ideas, there is always someone that will go against the flow, because he thinks that such is the better way, they aggressive because they had grown with that kind of nature and environment.

Minds of people is something you cannot predict, others are flexible and some are unpredictable, some acts with intention and others do without direction, so thing here depends upon the level of maturity certain person has.

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It's actually amusing how often these questions come up from new students... "What if 1000 ninjer nazis jumped out of a tree armed with half-eaten and slightly damp snickers bars and started to molest the grass?" Essentially, it's the application of reductio ad absurdum – the premise is that a martial artist must be able to fight his way out of anything, thus, if we make the conclusion completely absurd and inescapable, we prove the martial artist a fraud.

Premise: A martial artist can is capable of prevailing in a fight.

Disproof: If a martial artist is surrounded by 15 assailants with automatic weapons and switchblades and AIDS infected needles litter the ground and he's already grievously wounded from a trip to disneyland in which he ate the boxed lunch from the little place in Tomorrowland and is technically dead anyhow, he will be defeated.

Make the argument ridiculous enough, and you can not logically counter it.

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@Shiro: Glad to oblige. Sorry if I got you in trouble :D

I must have missed the previous post. I can assume that some question in particular spark this question.

In my opinion some of it may come from that person environment. I have seen some question that to me would appear like some improbable circumstances. But it some people speak from their own environment of what they might see. I recall one recent post that some talked of gangs but they didn't call them gangs. Saying they attack people with knives where they live. This seems unlikely to me. Where I'm from I expect multiple attackers. Often at least one of them are armed with a handgun.

Sometimes I know people will think I'm being unfair when I speak of mma not being designed for self defense. It is designed for a sport. But being a person that has competed most of my life in sport and facing life or death situations in bad neighborhoods I have a pretty good idea of the difference. People natural assume I anti or against mma and I'm not. I believe it can help a person if attacked. But I know it will not help me as much as other training that I have had in the environments that I have been exposed to or the ones that my students face.

I have 2 student right now neither are over 13 that are brothers. One has faced a knife attack the other which is a couple years young a kid threaten to get a Glock to shoot him with and actually brought it to school the next day. I didn't know about this until about 3 weeks ago. Both incidents happened in school. They didn't attend the same schools.

This has made me reconsider what I could or should teach children students vs adult students.

Also recently I met a young lady. Just a teenager that wa s living in some difficult situations. I'll just say her situation wasn't the most stable. I opened my home to her and allowed her to live with my family as if she were another member of the family. I a few weeks she opened up to us about some of the things she has seen. She spoke of how the city that I live was much cleaner and better than where she was from in the small town in a practically rural area. I would have expected less crime and such in a rural area. But she spoke of needles being everywhere. I personally have never seen anything like that except for some special on tv that I often wonder if they do that for the dramatic effect.

I have an uncle the 3 guys attempted to rob him when he was going into the clinic. You would think he would not be the person that you would attack. He is like 6'4 300 plus pounds. He was a bouncer at an adult club at the time. One guy a a lead pipe, another a chain and I forget what weapon the 3rd person had. Well my uncle took the pipe after the 1st swing and beat the crap out of the 3. He felt it was his life or theirs. One was in critical condition. All 4 were locked up 2 had to be kept in the hospital. My uncle was charged, but we had to pick him up from jail. The police told us how the one that wasn't hurt as bad was giving them trouble and they threaten to put my uncle in the same cell with him and he straighten up....lol

Often, the question is a challenge. The challenge, real or perceived, is though to try to prove a belief in one over the belief of another.

Go to the Religion and Spirituality section and see the same silly arguments over religion and Bible interpretations.

Go to the Human Sexuality section and see the same silly arguments over Bi/Straight/Gay.

Go to the Political Science section and see the same silly arguments over...

Maybe you get the idea. If the question were tactfully posed, there would be no reason for a defensive position. But some people are not versed in the intricacies of tact, and so you see the results. Or maybe they don't care, and simply want to cause problems.

IMO, it's less about "being prepared for Armageddon" and more about "being able to tell the other person: 'See, I can come up with a situation that can stump you, lol' and thus 'win' the so-called argument."

For a site called Yahoo! ANSWERS, this place has depressingly few genuine Q&A posts.

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Just read OC Bujinkan's answer. Can't stop laughing. And I'm at work.

so which you're attempting to assert street rage is an excuse for an twist of fate? In driving and in existence, and that's some thing you do not understand curiously, we'd desire to take accountability for our very own movements. the vehicle pulling out in front of you, properly, that sucked. You had to decelerate for 5 seconds. that doesn't justify you tailgating the different motive force for a mile. If it have been me you have been tailgating, i might pull over, look ahead to you to bypass by utilising, then persist with you mutually as I call the police and record you for street rage. that's a criminal offense you understand. As for the escalation, properly, they does not be interior the area to be injured returned in case you had not plowed into them in a greater healthful of anger.

Lol, if you meant all those street fight questions about which would be better, then I guess you can chalk it up to the fact that most people have different ideas of what would constitute a "street fight". So they tend to argue since they all come from a different perspective. What most people call a street fight is usually this romanticized notion of two guys duking it out and testing their skills like a duel from times of old, which is nice but not exactly what usually happens. For some, a street fight calls to mind a gang war for turf where anything goes and all weapons comes into play. Some like me prefer to point out the pointlessness of such comparisons since a 1 on 1 scenario like what most have in mind is more likely to be seen in movies only than in real life. Case in point, my cousin once accosted a guy in a club for putting his hands on his girlfriend and asked him to step out of the club so they could settle it outside. My cousin then goes out to wait, but instead of coming out himself, the other guy's 2 friends step out and gang up on my cousin, when my cousin's friends saw this, they all, 5 of them, jumped on the 2 guys and what started out as supposedly a 1 vs 1 fight, turned from a 2 vs 1 into a 6 vs 2 fight in a heartbeat, worse thing was, a security guard on the sideline kept firing his gun into the air to stop the fight and would most likely have shot someone if the cops hadn't shown up.

Sports make athletes

The samurai who practiced jujutsu were prepared for anything.

I am not an athlete I practice the arts of war aka martial arts.

boxing teaches you to punch & move around

baseball teaches to swing a club & throw things

both can be applied to fighting but by no means are martial arts like budo & wushu styles they are more like equestrian vaulting & marathon running.

baseball even has a slide kick but that doesn't make it the western equivalent of karate.

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lol good one shiro

It was the holidays and all the kids were off school and at home. It should settle back down now until summer and then I am afraid a lot of it will just start back up again.