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Art by tkjn

DODGE

SHOVE HIM BACK

First thing’s first: there is a difference between hard and soft techniques. Hard techniques are techniques that cause permanent damage or kill, such as knee breaks, wendo fists to the throat, temple shots, etc. Soft techniques are techniques that will heal in time, like nose breaks, collarbone fractures, kicks to the shin. Breaking a bone does not constitute a hard technique. A collarbone or forearm break is a regularly practiced technique. And while of course we don’t break each others bones in class, we are drilled the form into our heads. So unless your ‘martial arts school’ teaches different rules, I would break a bone if I felt threatened and someone took a fight beyond the rules and regulations.

If you feel your life is threatened or that you will be raped, you are allowed to use hard techniques.

okay, i don’t know what diluted reality you’re living in, but obviously you’re a bigot who doesn’t understand multiple perspectives -- i, for one, don’t agree with you when you say that it’s a common rule to ‘not break people’s bones’ in fights, depends on where you learn combat. that’s limited to your knowledge and doesn’t even bother encompassing any other techniques or other things can can be learned outside of martial arts or whatever you’re studying. the ‘12 different martial arts classes’ comment was also totally irrelevant and doesn’t help make a point, because you have no legitimacy. claiming that you’ve taken 12 different martial arts classes doesn’t deter my opinion and doesn’t make me think you’re any less of a self-inflated piece of chewed gum. perhaps in karate and your so-called ‘martial arts classes’ have taught you that it’s unacceptable to break a bone, and i’m not going to tell you that you’re wrong about that, but holy shit do you know how ignorant the statement ‘that’s not how it works in the real world’ is??? are you fucking kidding me??????? have you even been in a real street fight or a situation where your life has been threatened? i’d imagine not, so you don’t even have the authority to argue your point because you’re not speaking from personal experience.

you’re speaking from what you learned in a controlled environment where you knew who you were fighting and you knew what the grounds were. the attack to yang’s person happened OUTSIDE of the fight, why did mercury take the time to create an illusion to make it seem like she attacked him out of nowhere if the entire thing wasn’t shady enough? he’s trying to cover up the fact that he provoked her without realizing she wasn’t going to take it. why would he take the time trying to hide it if she were in the wrong?

there are multiple types of reactions from people when they’re being provoked; when you’re given no time to properly assess the situation, you’re going to react upon impulse in order to ensure your survival. this is called the fight or flight response, and this is a primeval aspect present in probably every single human being that has ever existed since the dawn of time, since saying that human beings have a will to live would be a pretty safe assumption to make. YANG WAS BEING ATTACKED without ample time to even properly react. he threatened her life (‘there isn’t going to be a next time, blondie’), and she didn’t even fully register what was happening until his foot was in her face.

seriously, does this look like the face of someone who was intending to use excessive force? she looks shocked and a little bit confused, she doesn’t even know he’s going to attack her until he’s right next to her after having been on the ground. she definitely wasn’t expecting him to come and attack her LET ALONE FROM BEHIND, otherwise she wouldn’t have turned her back to him and continue about her business. and remember what she says after she punches him? ‘that’s what you get you little--’ before she was cut off, she UNDERSTOOD that he was provoking her/threatening her with no reasonable basis AFTER she defended herself. as mechanicalcrayon so eloquently stated, “excessive force is one thing, and that would likely entail yang running up and beating the shit out of him after he’s down”. do you not know the definition of excessive in the first place? according to merriam-webster, excessive is defined as “exceeding what is usual, proper, necessary, or normal”. HE WAS ATTACKING HER AND SHE REACTED IMPULSIVELY, are you going to sit there and tell me that this isn’t a reasonable reaction to being provoked? it isn’t a NORMAL reaction? go say that to everyone else in THE REAL WORLD who has been attacked and tell them that they ‘used excessive force’ to defend themselves, seriously. i dare you.

let’s put this into perspective for you and take a theoretical scenario into account -- someone breaks into your home and threatens you at gunpoint, and you, the victim, stab the attacker to prevent your life from being taken. let’s actually remember that this is most likely a real life thing that has actually occurred to someone. would you think that you used excessive force despite someone threatening your very life?

are you going to sit there and tell me that reacting on impulse to secure your life is wrong? why don’t you sit the fuck down for a minute and really think about the argument you’re making here.

you mean to tell me that if this were you, you would have reacted fast enough to dodge the attack without even impulsively hitting back to prevent the attack from occurring? you mean to tell me that people who have their lives threatened are in the wrong for doing whatever it takes to secure their lives, especially if they don’t have enough time to react? get the fuck out of my face with your bullshit, i can’t even believe this.

“Be careful.”