Not an easy standard to apply though
when faced by a savage adversary intent on flattening the
world with your head. How many would not employ even
the vilest instrument to protect a loved one? For instance the
young lady who nearly burst my ear drum out side a
Coventry nightclub would never have believed herself
capable of violent assault, yet when her beloved was
attacked her principles disappeared quicker than a gambler's
rent money. 'Violence is not the answer!' She yelled at me
indignantly. Granted I had just 'sparked' her irate boyfriend
with a practiced right cross. He had tried to marry my face
with the speared edges of a broken beer glass -I felt
compelled to stop him the only way I knew how.
'No?' I replied with mock surprise. 'Well, tell your boyfriend
that when he wakes up.'