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?

Comments

[bratling.livejournal.com]

*chuckle*

i find his ranty journal very entertaining.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Eh. Your mileage may vary. :) I find constant rants get old fast. And I don't think much of his suggestion that saying "Fighting back is your best chance" is equivalent to saying "If you don't fight back, it's because you're a coward". Some people aren't psychologically prepared to fight back, some aren't physically able, some simply don't have anything to fight back with (or are denied the right to do so). That doesn't make them cowards.

[bratling.livejournal.com]

erm, actually he was ranting about other people who were saying things like that.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Seemed to me like he was equating the two statements, but reading it again, I can see how it could be taken either way.