tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377354642754058446.post7460018377978082647..comments2023-09-10T00:54:55.369-07:00Comments on Fear an Iarthair: Big Bad Bug-Eyed Criminal Master PredatorsMan of the Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03691063580228409415noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377354642754058446.post-457667081246728722010-08-06T13:24:46.899-07:002010-08-06T13:24:46.899-07:00Unless he's writing somewhere under a differen...Unless he's writing somewhere under a different name, no, it wasn't Rory. Somebody else has apparently come to the conclusion that the criminal element is so overwhelmingly bad that only people with Special Ops training have a prayer of coping with them.Man of the Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03691063580228409415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377354642754058446.post-38555094863905389912010-08-06T06:35:01.983-07:002010-08-06T06:35:01.983-07:00Good point (as usual). No, I don't think you ...Good point (as usual). No, I don't think you are beating this dead horse to death again and again and again ;-)<br /><br />Seriously. I totally agree with you on your summary that if you can get slippery, get 1 good strike and a handful of grab releases then your chances are very much better of running home intact.<br /><br />but...<br /><br />(there's always a but, isnt there?)<br /><br />seems to me that what criminals do have that nice folks might not includes:<br />1) the willingness to disregard social norms, taboos, etc...<br />2) the willingness to strike first, with surprise.<br /><br />Sure, you can avoid most of that sort of jerk by avoiding all the usual places they hang out.<br /><br />But I think that the problem that Rory et al (I suppose that's who set you off in the first place) are trying to solve is not the fact that all criminals are super-evil-martial-masterminds. <br /><br />The poblem that they are trying to solve is that most (nearly all?) folks freeze when they are struck from surprise. Heck, that's nearly all Rory writes about is The Freeze and how it happens and how to perhaps resolve it.<br /><br />It's not that all bad guys are supermen, it's that all normal folks turn into sheep when surprised.<br /><br />imoPatrick Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04471858995477729220noreply@blogger.com