| You never "win". Having been in a hospital due to an accident, I would never want to put anyone else in there. And if I was put there by someone else, I would probably have been obsessed with getting back at them. So to "win" actually just means to "shift trauma around for a while". I mean, just look at how popular this article is at the moment. There is a lot of latent resentment from being on the receiving end of violence. If you're on the end that's dishing it out, you're just putting other people where you used to be. And you know how that feels. Also keep in mind that reading an article on fighting makes you about as good at fighting as reading an article on surgery makes you a surgeon. You're liable to make things even worse. If you REALLY want to know how to fight, practice some martial art that takes streetfighting seriously. It's remarkably easy to lose an eye or a testicle. Additionally, you can't afford to trade 1-for-1 with a drunken asshole. It's like defensive driving -- some people are set on eventually making themselves smoking corpses in a burning wreck, so it's better to get out of the asshole's way than be that other party in the burning wreck. Getting away from a bad situation IS self-defense. |