If Your Life, Or The Loved Of Someone Else Is In Danger...
@danishcanadian (28954)
Canada
September 4, 2009 1:14pm CST
...are you prepared to use physical force?
Walker and I are watching an episode of one of our favourite shows, Sue Thomas F B Eye, about a deaf FBI agent. In the opening scene a man tried to rob a hair salon where Sue and her colleague Tara are having their hair done. When the opportunity arises, and the would-be robber is about to shoot an innocent lady coming out of the bathroom, Tara jumps up and shoots him. He dies the next morning.
During the show Tara grapples with emotional issues because of what she was forced to do, while her colleagues assure her that she did the right thing, and had no choice. She's initially fine, then deals with issues, and is fine at the end.
How would you handle a situation like that? Do you think you'd be able to hold it together?
While I've never had to use as much force as Tara did (I've never owned a weapon) I have had to use some kind of force, including the other night when a man tried to push me out of the way, as I was trying to walk up my own walkway to the froon door of my building. He was coming down the sidewalk with a bite, and tried to push me out of the way when I crossed infront of him, before he even showed up, to go up my walkway. I had to stand my grown, and physically prevent him from pushing me over. Had I needed to use more force than that, i could have, because I would have been defending myself, and I'd have felt little remorce, because I was only doing what I had to do.
I also had to fight a guy off once, when he tried to hijack the taxi I had already called, and was trying to get into at the time. No problems there either.
Are you able to put your conscience and emotions aside, when it really comes down to necessary SELF DEFENSE?
3 responses
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
5 Sep 09
I would like to think that I would be ready , able and willing to put my conscience and emotions aside in a case of self defense or to help a loved one. However, I have to confess that I think I would be really bad at it. I am not very physical and even if I am really mad or scared or both I seem to always be worried about hurting the other person, making my attack weak and senseless.
It's not a matter of feeling remorse afterward, it's more like I"m going to hit this person but I don't won't to hurt this person kind of thing". Pretty scary, really.
The same thing with screaming in fear I have had the opportunity - unfortunately - to learn that I can't do it.
Even when I was a kid, I couldn't ever scream, screech or yell that high. At a time kids do all of those just for fun I was always the silent one because I just couldn't do it for some reason.
Later I learned that it wasn't just a child thing. I just can't. I hear other people and friends, screeching when they see a spider or get scared for something even if it's not really that dangerous. Well I can't do it even if it is that dangerous.
