Quote Originally Posted by McLeodGanja
Yeah but Buddha had a better idea, make friends with your enemy.

I've always found that a good way to avoid a fight with some asshole. I usually explain to them that I really have no interest in fighting, and that I'm not very good at it. Usually they either respond by shaking my hand and apologising, or they walk off thinking they are hard, which is easy for me to brush off because usually I know that if I really went ballistic at them I could probably kill them. But I don't want to. All the ones I couldn't handle tend not blow about how hard they are, because they don't need to.

I don't put America in the latter category, they are too fucking stupid. (the government)

Too much gun toting usually results in a war, eventually.

Theword is longer than themissile, by 3 characters!

Anyone remember that thing in the news recently about the US Navy who were patrolling the sea somewhere in the vicinity of China. Next thing a Chinese submarine comes out of the water, no-one knew it was there.
I usually handle potential fights in much the same way. I think it works on a person-to-person level, but not so well for countries. Preventing fights between countries involves a lot more than the unwillingness of one side to fight. When countries fight it is usually about one trying to take something from the other or somehow infringing on the other's intersts, so the person-to-person analogy is more like trying to prevent a robbery. If you are confronted by a mugger, an unwillingness to fight won't help you. You either have to give the mugger what he wants or put up a fight, in which case it is good to have a weapon.