It is better to avoid than to run; better to run than to de-escalate; better to de-escalate than to fight; better to fight than to die. the very essence of self-defense is a thin list of things that might get you out alive when you are already "out of luck"*.
~ From “Meditations on Violence”
*words changed for age group
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