Couple of days ago, Chris makes the point that he’s “Fat, slow and dangerous” and asks who that knows him would go up against him?
Me, by my nature, I’m a coward. I’m not fast, I’m not all that coordinated, and my reaction times are not what they once were. but i have a weapon, one that few can defend against, and it is my brain.
See, the idea of a ‘Fair” fight is just ludicrous to me. Why should I cross swords with someone and give that someone a chance to defeat me, if being defeated is undesired?
I don’t play games, I don’t compete, i don’t have, anymore, a competitive bone in my body. I would probably engage in Sport, as Hemingway defined it, but only for amusement. I have precious little to prove, and for the most part, don’t care.
if I was bound and determined to take a life, it would not involve being in a situation where that person would or could defend themselves. I avoid putting myself in those situations, and I highly reccomend it to anyone. I am not a screen talker, by any means, but when I’m in a theater and see someone doing something very stupid, it drives me nuts. There’s a scene in Serenity where the captain shoots the operative and walks away, and the operative still has his head. Stupid, stupid stupid.
When you decide to do something, do it. Don’t fuck around, and don’t equivocate, and don’t hesitate at the last moment. Most of all don’t make it a “Fair fight” because the odds are good that “Fairness” will not favor you. And killing someone in their sleep is not “Cheating” its surviving.
It isn’t ever someone’s strength that I fear, because I do my best to avoid situations where that is a disadvantage to me.
Someone who, on the other hand, has regularly and commonly made plans to commit what the Church considers a “Mortal sin” and has done so, unhesitatingly and without fail, those are the people I watch for- and those are the qualities I admire most in people, for good or ill.
