Every child needs to be taught how to fight. There’s clean, schoolyard fighting, and then there’s Dirty Fighting or Street Fighting or Prison Fighting — where everything and anything goes. You can fishhook, you can eye-gouge, you can slam a guy in the groin with a shovel. Hair-pulling and fingernails-scratching are never allowed in any informal fight arena.
Do we create our thoughts? If we create them, do we own them? The United States Army is working on new “thought helmets” where “thought synthesis” between soldiers will be immediate an unspoken.
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One of the hardest things to negotiate in any relationship is competitive anger and the rising insult and we must work hard to extricate ourselves from the tricksy snare of its red tooth and claw.
