And sometimes you need to be hit over and over again because you forget to watch the guy's eyes when he feints left. Reminds me, I think I'm sufficently recovered from the beating inflicted by the kindergarten corps to continue your hand to hand classes.
As for the Heinlein quote, you're thinking too narrowly about violence. Law is based off of the idea of consequences for what are deemed unacceptable actions. Violence, be it physical, mental or social, are what the consequences are drawn from. You don't simply take what you want when you feel like it. Part of that is evolved from our conditioning that you don't because you will be in trouble. God will hate you. Daddy will yell. All of those things are a violence of a sort. Morals evolve as behaviour becomes more ingrained, so now the idea of simply, say, taking someone elses stuff just because you can is an abhorrent act, but it has developed into such because the first person who got his tribe together to stop it from happening built it on the basis of violent consequences for the actions. It goes from being practical, to being cultural, to being traditional, to being ethical.
That's what two degrees and twenty grand will get you, folks. The ability to blather on a closed journal system about Heinlein. Keep studying, stay in school, yadda yadda...
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Date: 2009-07-30 01:22 am (UTC)As for the Heinlein quote, you're thinking too narrowly about violence. Law is based off of the idea of consequences for what are deemed unacceptable actions. Violence, be it physical, mental or social, are what the consequences are drawn from. You don't simply take what you want when you feel like it. Part of that is evolved from our conditioning that you don't because you will be in trouble. God will hate you. Daddy will yell. All of those things are a violence of a sort. Morals evolve as behaviour becomes more ingrained, so now the idea of simply, say, taking someone elses stuff just because you can is an abhorrent act, but it has developed into such because the first person who got his tribe together to stop it from happening built it on the basis of violent consequences for the actions. It goes from being practical, to being cultural, to being traditional, to being ethical.
That's what two degrees and twenty grand will get you, folks. The ability to blather on a closed journal system about Heinlein. Keep studying, stay in school, yadda yadda...