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To: Lane3 who wrote (2582)	10/11/2006 4:51:28 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

I think he was only referring to a subset of hostile situations. Hostile could just be people insulting you. I imagine Jim was apparently referring to actively violent hostile situations.

To: Lane3 who wrote (2582)	10/11/2006 5:53:27 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 10087

"Surely you're not disagreeing with those who counsel folks to turn over their valuables to muggers." I definitely counsel my loved ones to do that. However, I can see an argument for standing up to the mugger also. When I was a kid and we all had toy cowboy guns, another kid pulled his and said, 'stick em up.' I said, 'no.' He said 'then I'll shoot you.' I said, 'I'll shoot you back'. He got mad because that's not the way we were shown to do it in Roy Rogers movies; then quit and went home. When we play by the mugger's rules. The rules of the mugger are reinforced for the next victim. When we don't, there is a possibility that the mugger will quit and there will be no more victims of that mugger. I liked the Charles Bronson 'Death Wish' movies. ... But you can tell mph, I know it doesn't really work that way.