Growing up in America, Hollywood portrayed fights by the “good guys” with the “bad guys” as an event with rules, conducted in good faith – a “fair fight”!
We based our understanding of self-defense by watching Clint Eastwood, Tom Selleck, John Wayne, and other men of character fight their way out of a sticky situation – generally unscathed!
This perception that a physical conflict is choreographed in good faith and conducted under an unwritten set of rules is recognized now as a myth. The “bad guys” do not concede to good faith and conduct hostile, violent confrontations void of any competition style or rule.
The “bad guys” play dirty and the notion that we can defend ourselves by playing the rules and in good faith is a myth.
