Re: Re: The Captives Problem

From: L.Castellucci <lightcastle_at_...>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:03:38 -0400


I'm agreeing with Jane. Just about everything on fighting hand to hand - with or without weapons - has focused on surviving first.

Now whether that is the same when you have war objectives as well... I'm not sure how those balance out. But most fights are until the other person stops trying to kill you, from my understanding.

LC

On March 22, 2007 03:59 pm, Jane Williams wrote:
> He saw the objective as
> survival, not as killing. Rule 1: on no account allow
> your opponent to strike you. Rule 2: whenever
> possible, endeavour to strike your opponent. He then
> goes into a considerable amount of detail as to how to
> best achieve this, but the basic concept is emphasized
> throughout.
>
> Remember that the berserkers, the ones whose desire to
> kill was stronger than their desire to live, were
> rare, and feared.

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