Common cause

[unixronin]

There is a lesson to be learned from Virginia Tech and, by comparison, from the Appalachian Law School.

There is a lesson to be learned from United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001.

I could find other examples.  The Warsaw ghetto, for example.  But the point would be the same.  They all teach the same lesson.

That lesson is quite simple, and can be stated in two words:

FIGHT BACK.

If you refuse to fight back, you are betting your future, your life, and everything else you have to lose, on the goodwill of your attacker.  Where is the possible logic in trusting to the goodwill of someone who has just viciously attacked you without provocation?

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[danjite.livejournal.com]

I agreee, but with caveats.

My caveat is this: Be where the danger isn't.

If one wants to live in a war zone, one should arm themselves appropriately. I don't want to be armed constantly, so I don't live in a war zone.

In point of fact, I do live in a militray dictatorship that currently has a ban on YouTube and- for that matter- a handgun murder rate higher per capita than the US- but nearly all those killings are quite personal.

Those things considered, I do feel safer here than I ever did in the US.

What price freedom, folks?
I have to use a proxy server to get YouTube, but can afford healthcare and don't have to carry. My choice works for me.

Does yours work for you?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

My caveat is this: Be where the danger isn't.

Oh, absolutely. The very best way to avoid injury in a fight is not to be where the fight happens in the first place.

Sometimes, though, the fight comes to you.

I have to use a proxy server to get YouTube, but can afford healthcare and don't have to carry. My choice works for me.
Does yours work for you?

New Hampshire works very nicely for me, thanks. As for carrying, I consider it along the lines of a societal responsibility/duty which my current state of choice is sufficiently enlightened not to prevent me from performing. The way I see it, any society's days are numbered once its citizens can no longer be bothered to do anything themselves to protect it.

[danjite.livejournal.com]

Whereas I long for a kinder, gentler time that only ever existed in isolated nooks and crannies and then only for priviledged races and classes.

Fortunately, I am good at finding those nooks and crannies.