Many martial arts today pride themselves on being a “defensive art”. In other words, if someone attacks you, only then do you defend yourself. What if you are confronted by an assailant who you know is going to attack you but hasn’t yet. Lets say the assailant is still in the threatening mode. Do you wait for him to attack? Well, if you follow the philosophy of a defensive art, you must wait
If you want to survive however, you must attack first.
Attack first?? That’s barbaric! But are you really attacking first? The old question goes: “What does the journey of ten thousand miles begins with?” The common answer is “The first step”. The more appropriate answer is “The thought of the first step”. Thought proceeds action. Therefore the assailant was attacking with his “mind” and when you seemingly attack first, you are just beating him to the punch. Hence, you remain defensive. If the assailant hadn’t confronted you in the first place there would be no confrontation. This is not a play on semantics to justify a moral dilemma. This is a fact.
Now, many “decent” people,...
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