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Katherine Derbyshire wrote:
I agree. That was the point on which I entered this thread. The more aggressive and violent person will, most of the time, be the attacker. (When you look at it, this is a tautology: if he weren't aggressive and violent, he wouldn't be out there attacking people.)
Katherine
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No the people that go around attacking people are the most angry people, not always the most violent or the most aggressive. Half of martial arts after all is becoming habituated to violence such that it doesn't provoke the fight or flight response and the other half is learning to become so aggressive that an opponent is quickly overwhelmed and potentially even killed.
The paradox of this is that learning to do it involves learning to defeat it in yourself so you get past fear based reactions.