Yes. Breaking down the types of violence categorically like this is essentially a way to prepare someone for the vast circumstances that could lead to violence and that someone has to be able to leap from fighting to using violence to avoid murder in an instant.rightisright wrote:Interesting, Nicodemus. I've got a bunch of years of various martial arts under my belts (da dum dum), but I've never heard any instructor discuss that. Could you elaborate a bit?-Types of violence (social, anti-social, a-social)
Social violence represents acts of violence that while may be considered "wrong" are accepted as part of our society. This is the barfight, road-rage, essentially any time the attacker confronts the victim. This also includes mutual combat. "You will kick my ass? F*** you ill kick your ass" kind of thing.
Antisocial violence is what happens when you take a socially acceptable level of violence and apply it outside the relm of social acceptance. This would be date-rape, spousal abuse, backing out of a fight at the bar then ambushing them at their car. Essentially anything where the victim is NOT given an opportunity to exit the situation by being confronted or the victim doesn't impose a threat themselves.
Asocial violence is when a leap is taken and the point becomes the violence itself rather than for social, financial, sexual or personal gain. This is the serial killer, rapist, murderer. There is no point to communicate, there is no escalation of force, you are suddenly fighting for your life.
The point in breaking this up for a self defense student is to get them to accept and realize that there is a likelyhood that if they follow the social code of avoiding violence as a martial artist, the most likely scenario they will face could be one where they are not simply defending themselves but intentionally hurting or maiming another human being to save themselves or a loved one. That when it comes to this level of criminal violence you really have no choice but to instantly meet them at that asocial level (though in the case of the defender it is socially acceptable) where your greatest chance is to deliver a more intense level of violence than they do, before they can. This is why it is so important for a school/instructor to teach based off of the principles of combat rather than teach based off of a collection of techniques.
I first came across this specific breakdown of the types of violence and types of self defense from Tim Street of Combat Kempo Street Method and I believe that he in turn got it from Target Focus Training. Here is a video where they break it down and they do an awesome job of doing it. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 3761191970