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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
Ok, I now understand what it is you're saying and how I misrepresented my statement. Rephrasing that statement to 'compliance to all demands from someone with a weapon will lead you to complete defenselesness if said criminal intends to harm/kill you. If you let the bad guy tie you up, thinking he won't hurt you, you've now invited certain death, IF the bad guy decides to kill you, because you've complied yourself in to a helpless state.
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Once you add in all the qualifiers, it becomes easy to see how there is no "certain death" involved here.
Therein lies the dilemma. Are you more likely to be harmed through compliance or through resistance? Resistance creates the possibility of provoking violence from the bad guy than otherwise would not have occurred, or may result in a higher degree of violence than otherwise might have occurred, or it might deter the worse aspects of it. Compliance might make things easier for a criminal intent to do harm, or it might satisfy the criminal with other intent such that no violence is necessary.
I don't think there's any one answer that is going to be best for everyone in every situation. I've chosen escape if possible, and if not, compliance and pacifism as a way to exert some control should such a situation ever happen to me again. It's what I think is best for me as a person, given my physical limitations in a confrontation, particularly with an armed person. Fighting back isn't going to do the guy much, if any harm, but it'll sure give him incentive to hurt me more, and I'd prefer to avoid that.
Gilda