[quote]Robert A wrote:
I offer the following with the utmost respect, and as an explanation of whrere I am coming from.
STRATEGIC LEVEL(what likely matters)
I get the indignation, but I am of firm conviction that “rightious” has very little to do with proficiency at violence. I wish we lived in a world where being good or true insured victory. We don’t.
I get that smothering ego is harder to do on “bad days”. One of the lessons I learned in my uncool, and not forum group think approved, training in traditional martial arts is the notion that the first thing we cut with the sword is our ego. There will be no room for it. Not once we are in hostile contact. Than it is all tactics and technical ability to do the damn thing.
I will submit the idea that if someone you don’t know is following you, i.e. “Shooty McRoadRager” than you have little to gain by “fighting” him(I am making the distinction between “fighting” and “combat” that Irish is far better at defining). You can’t gain any social standing with him. Fuck, do you even want his acknowledgement?
Fighting is for proving dominance or superiority. Just by being who you are you have that over someone so clueless about what violence means that he wants to drive 30 minutes to slap/punch an emo kid. He has nothing you want. If you KO him, are you going to go through his pockets for trophies? Do you get to seize all of his carnally desirable women folk and hail livestock.(Or, owing to my “Redneck”/flyover status-hail women folk and carnally desirable livestock) No, of course not. You can’t even put a sheep in your car.
You also cannot change that kind of stupid. Do you really think that guy managed to survive into early baldness and bland sex without ever catching a beating? If getting wrecked was going to adjust him, it would have happened. This goes double for the kind of feral humans you spoke of when you wrote “will not be violated”. Those people are sufficiently broken enough that I make no attempt at understanding their motives. In fact, I consider pleas that I do so an insult. I will say that generally, selfish, violent people with poor impulse control find themselves on the wrong end of a dust up with regularity. Their continued presence in society indicates to me that we are unlikely to change them with one more beating.
So fuck them. Drive on. The enjoyment comes later.
TACTICAL
I will offer up the idea that if someone gets up to your driver’s window and close enough to lay hands on you, than you have missed something awareness wise. The asshole didn’t come out of nowhere. He is just a collection of molecules like every other person. He came from somewhere. We just didn’t notice. So, if we are getting punched and that is our clue/confirmation of bad shit than perhaps we have missed other things as well. We know where he is, but that might be the sum of our threat assessment.
Feral humans can still run in packs. This guy brought his wife, and she brought a gun. I submit that if the engine is still running immediately re-locating to a different position is preferable to fighting from the position that has just been ambushed. IF during said relocation the guy gets run over, he bought the ticket, he takes the ride.
All we know for sure is someone liked there chances against us enough to try us on for size, right HERE, right NOW. If we change position we might change whatever those chances were. So aggressively maneuver if possible. If not, THAN engage and start doing real damage. SEE comment about sheet metal, skinny pedal, and casual attitude. Nerd Note: Clausewitz said this was going to come down to maneuver and slaughter, and that the more we made of the first the lest we would need of the second. Also, the fact you can read him in the original, or closer to it, is another reason you are awesome.
TECHNICAL
Clubs work better when you can get your hips under and into the swing. Wearing a seatbelt might preclude that. A car is a bigger club anyway, so if we are going to do this…
Regards,
Robert A
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Fantastic post, Robert. I agree, it’s all bout common sense.
But forgive me. Call me wild, young and ‘‘naive’’… but if I suspect someone is following me home for 30 mins because I cut him through traffic, I will be ready for the fight. Forget about what we’ve learnt about suppressing our ego from the Martial Art school. Hell, as I said previously, nowadays, it’s so easy for me to walk away from the temptation of fighting people in streets or other places when unfairly provoked.
However, in this particular place, fuck it. You follow me to my home for 30 mins, you’re a fucking threat to me. You rush to my car as I stopped to park to ‘‘teach me a lesson’’, then I’ll be gladly happy to crush your bones with my crowbar. One of the few things I hate is to be intimidated, and, that motherfucker following me for 30 mins is merely attempting to do that. First, mentally, by following me, making it clear that I shouldn’t have messed with him, then physically, once he rushes to my car to knock me out.
But before he even gets the chance to do so, I’ll be out by then, wielding my crow bar like a fucking ninja.
What if that bastard wants to rape me after rendering me unconscious? I am pretty sexy when I’ve fainted and, I dress rather provocatively when I drive… I’m a ‘‘frightened’’ woman in her car, threatened by some motherfucker – yes, I’d use this as an excuse in court