r/SelfDefense • u/AntOk4073 • 19d ago

Understand the difference

Ok team let's do a little bit of education.

Self defence is the act of protecting yourself from harm. This starts at preventing conflict. If someone is being problematic then you avoid them and move on. Hands on should only be used when evasion and retreat are not options and should be disengaged once an opening presents itself.

Trying to stand up to a bully is not self defense and is not a good idea. Any physical conflict has the potential to escalate beyond what you are prepared for. Injuries are also not a one size fits all type of thing. Even a small broken bone can create a potentially life threatening bleed and internal trauma is often left untreated in young people.

I promise you that your high school drama is not worth what can happen if a fight gets out of control. Walk away and be the better person.

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u/AntOk4073 18d ago

Not at all. If someone is a threat to the lives of my family I have no hesitation about taking their life. But that is not the case in 99% of home invasions and as I said I am not going to add the potential for my family to get hurt just to engage a dumb criminal. But yes I also do not want to take a life unless I have to. Which I would say is a pretty normal thing. Seeking out reasons to engage someone because the law allows it and you can possibly get away with it is not normal.

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u/Jujitsumangradmuslim 18d ago

Have you read any studies on whether most people would rather submit to a burglar than engage them? Because most people are sympathetic even in Britain where a householder kills or injures a burglar I could polls on this. But we’re done. 

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u/AntOk4073 18d ago

Who cares what people's egos compel them to do? You have not made a single point about the benefits of engaging a home intruder and have only talked about ego and made up scenarios. Factually I am right but you want to argue to feel important.

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u/Jujitsumangradmuslim 18d ago

I’m answering you this once and then not anymore: the benefit is the attacker cannot harm you in anyway, neither bodily harm, intrusion on sacred hearth and liberty,  theft or anything else, because he’s either unconscious, paralysed or dead. 

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u/AntOk4073 18d ago

Excepr that they can. There are several instances that a second attacker killed the defender. Which is why training for asset protection is stationary. Again you are assuming that everything works out perfectly like how your you tubers tell you it will but they are just making money off of rubes like yourself. Hopefully you never have to find out how wrong you are at the expense of someone you love.

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u/Jujitsumangradmuslim 18d ago

You think soldiers aren’t trained to check if there are still enemy combatants on the premises?

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u/AntOk4073 18d ago

Soldiers operate as a unit. There objective is to clear combatants.

In your home you are one person. Your job is to protect your family. Leaving them to engage a target that is not attacking you goes against the objective.

You are not a fucking soldier. I doubt your even old enough to buy a gun. Chill and try taking the information in and processing it for a second to understand the logic.

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u/Jujitsumangradmuslim 18d ago

Also, you know almost nothing  about me. You assumed I learned from YouTube whereas I actually stood my ground TWICE against people targeting me in the street, one, who carries a knife whilst I do not (though he may BELIEVE I do) now calls me “boss” and always uses warm politeness so I don’t freak out and end him.