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Gaucho
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Date Posted: 14:35:09 06/12/02 Wed
In reply to:
Michael Ilaoa
's message, "Re:" on 02:18:58 06/12/02 Wed
Some days it seems that all those around me, my non-martial friends, my family, even my wife- essentially everyone but my training partners and my father- is worried about the lethality of what I choose to train in. "But you're a doctor" they say. "How can you train so obsessively to kill people?"
Everyone is worried but me. For I see no incongruity here.
A man, IMO, must be able to do many things well, [i]including[/i] fighting and killing should the need arise. Soldiers understand this. Prior generations of men (and women for that matter) understood this. But nowadays, at least in the so-called First World, everyone has been cleverly duped into forgetting this fundamental truth about the nature and roles of man- the human male- in society.
The current belief seems to be that the average man is not to be trusted with the ability to protect himself or his loved ones. Only the Authorities, whoever they might be, have the wisdom, the right to defend us from harm. Even 9/11 hasn't woken people up, IMO, to the impossibility and absurdity of such a notion.
On an even more basic human level, how can a man possibly hope to fufill one of his most crucial genetic imperatives, that of the Protector, if he cannot fight? Isn't a man who knows deep in his heart of hearts that he cannot fight, that he cannot defend or protect anyone, not even himself, isn't that man emasculated, reduced in such a fundamental way that it leaves him no longer a man, but simply another domesticated herd animal to be used or harvested at will?
Mario
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