"You always fear what you don't understand"
Humans give weight to words. Sometimes that weight prohibits understanding.
Violence is one of those words. For many violence has an "evil" connotation.
This was highlighted not all that long ago in a discussion among instructors. One instructor took great strides to make a distinction between "violence" that bad guys use and "force" that professionals use. Wrapping the justified application of violence in flowery language, romanticizing it.
100% disagree
The discussion of violence today is not all that different than talking about sex in the 50's
Aunt Susan is pregnant...We don't talk about that.
Clearly sex is happening. It is a natural biological behavior. We are here today because it happened.
But we don't talk about it. Because we don't talk about it we don't understand it.
And...you always fear what you don't understand.
Make love
Sex
Fuck
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
If the word violence makes you feel icky. So icky that you can't use the word. How are you going to be able to use actual violence.
If you vilify violence (violence is something only bad guys use) You are building glitches into yourself and the people you train.
Violence is a tool. Its application can be just, or evil.
If you make it something it is not, if you make it evil in and of itself, then you take that tool away from the just.
You always fear what you don't understand.
You develop an understanding of how evil people use violence.
How do criminals use violence?
Questions are free...Answers cost.
Bruce Wayne traveled the world and became a criminal to understand how criminals use violence.
You don’t need to travel the world
You don’t to need to actually commit crimes
You do need to put yourself in the shoes of a criminal.
The best way I have seen to do this is through Rory Miller's Logic Of Violence presentation.
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Batman said, “Criminals are a cowardly, superstitious lot.”
Cowardly:
A predator will use tactics he has developed to get what he wants from you in the safest surest manor. This is in no way a “fair fight”.
The predator will take every advantage using speed, surprise and ferocity to prevent you from responding in any way that could be effective in stopping him.
Superstitious:
Ritual and rhythm - The hind brain is concerned with survival. What ever you are doing hasn’t gotten you killed yet - keep doing it. Modus Operandi (MO)
This is also exactly the way the professionals use "force"
Criminals are human just like the rest of us.
When you come up with your own answers to questions criminals face you begin to see the logic behind their actions.
When their actions make sense they are far less fearful.
Violence is a tool. Its application can be just, or evil.
Don't let words limit your survival responses. Be a friend to the wolf, and find the light within the darkness.
The Japanese have a phrase for this as well
Satsujinken - Katsujinken
Life taking sword - Life giving sword
The sword that kills is the sword that gives life
Satsujinken is the "Murdering Sword" which takes the lives of the weak, propagates evil, and eventually destroys one's humanity
Katsujinken is literally the "Life-giving Sword" and embodies all that is righteous: protecting the weak, destroying evil, and cultivating one's own spirit.
Katsujinken does not mean the absence of killing but "to kill only in the last instance, to eradicate evil and protect the weak".
It is just a sword, how it is used is entirely up to you. However, if we allow the narrative to label all swords as evil there will be no sword that gives live.
Train hard, train smart, be safe...use violence judiciously when necessary, don't let public narrative limit your response
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