From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Sat Sep 23 2000 - 12:45:40 MDT
It appears as if Amara Graps <Amara.Graps@mpi-hd.mpg.de> wrote:
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|For example, one piece of information that would be valuable for every
|human for their own self-defense is knowledge of the vulnerable places on
|the human body. And then learn how to use that information. It's not
|hard physically to hurt someone else (esp. in their vulnerable places).
|
|In my opinion, the hard part of that action is actually in one's mind-
|that is, giving oneself permission to badly hurt someone else. You
|must work through the mental exercise that if someone takes physical
|action against you, then that person has lost all rights, and it's
|morally OK to take action against them. That exercise must be worked
|through far in advance of any real-life threatening situation, so that
|if, or when, it happens in one's life, then you can act
|*instinctively*, without thinking (the mind would then just get in the
|way).
If an animal attacks me, then I feel obligated to neutralize it.
Whether the animal is human or not is totally irrelevant.
Morals never come into it, just simple neutralization of an attacker.
In non-technological combat, the easiest way of neutralization is
to hurt the attacker physically in an efficient manner so it cannot
continue the attack, e.g. by breaking a leg so it cannot move itself,
or taking out its nervous system by making it unconscious.
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