Friday, April 23, 2021

In Defense of Teenaged Knife Fighting [Very Brief]

By An Old Friend
Fri, Apr 23, 2021 10:02 p.m.

"In Defense of Teenage Knife Fighting" [Very Brief]

Nicely done ...




It's hypocrisy, too. Who among us hasn't come within a second or two of murdering someone else with a steak knife? My best friend in school, Bobby "The Blade" Simpson, used to throw shivs at the smaller kids in the music room. Did we need the authorities to step in when that happened? No, we did not. As MSNBC's Joy Reid argued smartly on her show last night, pranks such as these were dealt with by our teachers — just as we all expected they would be. And if something went wrong? Well, that's why we had substitutes.

In all honesty, I worry that this sort of helicopter policing is making us weak. Back in my day, the people who survived a good stabbing came out stronger for it. I learned a lot of lessons from my time in the ring: self-reliance, how to overcome fear, the importance of agility, the basics of military field dressing. And, given the turnover, I also learned how to make new friends.


2 comments:

  1. This was topnotch and laugh out loud funny.

    --GRA

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  2. Producing any sort of edged weapon is threating another person with death. That is defined by law. If you produce the knife, even without realizing that is what you are saying to the other person.

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