If you watch the news, you can find the occasional situations in which disagreements over something, even trivial, escalate quickly to the point of violence, or even death. I recall several cases where a minor traffic incident (for instance, one driver makes a remark on another) turns fast into unexpectedly violent. That is why there is a general advice to not enter into argumentation with strangers.
So in an extreme case like the traffic situation, the long arm of law is the judge and punishment will be upon the guilty if caught. Nevertheless, if you already have the mindset that you will not judge the words/actions of an aggressive stranger, you’d deny your defense nature and let him have his big fat say. The body eventually absorbs the heightened emotional state after you leave the situation and everything relaxes.
If the agressive guy causes me a permanent damage or kills me, the law cannot restore my health. I prefer my health over a jail/compensation punishment of the guilty.
I cannot know if the agressive stranger carries any sort of weapon. My “defense nature” is not going to protect me against a knife or a gun.
Have you ever driven through the Holland Tunnel in NYC, where no words exchanged the guy behind the one in front of him rear ends him to put it mildly, to the point of near concussion?
It’s lawless and anti fragile. Toughens westerners
To face their own alienation.
The memory lingers,
So it’s best to be the aggressive insulter here in ilp no matter what? Nothing to do with pride or ego. It’s your profound brilliance that kills off the less knowledgeable ones. No one owns Knowledge. Knowledge is accessible to everyone. If you want to bone up on a subject go ahead. Insults here are sticks and stones.
What would you do? Go to opera and listen to gotterdamering, a gentle poke in the gut,
Or
Like Kierkegaard maid , be kind kicked down the staircase with a violent yet gentle artistic lunge?
At Ilp you got a choice,
by donning skyhooks on and parachute out
With skill, knowledge and strength at hand you do a running dive into the domain of action. Aggressively positioning yourself among those who seek the journey causes them to yield. They must yield to you because you placed yourself in the correct location according to standardized rule. Then when the opportunity raises up you ready your skill and everything you know to be right. All the others there amongst you can only watch. With fortune on your side, you take off. You become one with the unrelenting force that upholds you and presents to you the way to seek for the most successful journey and you lay yourself upon it as it continues to support you. When your journey is complete perhaps another one of those among you took off on his own journey. You can in the spirit of comradery wish him an excellent journey. All your comrades along with you can be so appreciative that the domain in which you were active on that particular occasion was favorable, that conditions were just right for the journeys of many.
Yes true, but it was an unintentional set of events no one should have the misfortune to begin with. Such , even should be spared , even virtual, imagin d enemies who defy description.