Combat

Detarame [出鱈目] Shikō [思考]💭 

Tends to trigger a pre-conceived notion in the minds of most who have never experienced it outside of what is presented through the entertainment community. 

As a term used in the self-defense martial community it can be seen as a doorway into an unacceptable form or attitude to be used against you in the legal aftermath of an incident.

If violence is involved, then it’s combat. In a social situation it’s about the monkey but if it’s a true asocial defense situation then it’s combat because like societal sanctioned combat grave harm and death are on the table.

Combat: fighting between armed forces; take action to reduce or prevent (something bad or undesirable); (as social influences become more involved by the uninitiated things get muddy as hell).

In the social instance it usually involves methods that don’t result in grave harm or death except when it does - then we tend to have bad-luck involved often labeled as “an accident.” The sticky part is social violence is “fighting” and fighting is illegal therefore not self-defense. (See the mud now)

Deep in human history combat had two rules whereby one side taught under an honor rule while the other had one rule to win at any cost. 

Let’s take a moment and address fighting, it has two sides as well. One, with rules to mitigate possible grave harm and death. Two, no rules and anything goes BUT there’s more. There is the yang, fighting with fists, etc., and the psychological fight with no fists but where grave harm is still on the table, mental harm.

In short, when dealing with any level of violence from an argument to ending up in the ER/Cemetery therein lies fighting/combat.

If you train for self-defense? If that training involves firearms, etc., or empty hands? If the legal system becomes involved then herein lies the rub.

Even modern combat of the military kind has to deal with combat at every level and one misstep can lead to legal, social and moral ramifications.

One of those consequences for civil self-defense is self talk and the labeling of of methodologies because using combat triggers a specific mind-state in civilians and gives the legal systems the weapons they use to put your ass in a jail cell while ending the life you have no to include financial ruin and alienating you from family, friends and your community.