Question.. Who would allow people to hit them and victimize them, than use self defense?
Someone who knows that his aggressor is just looking for an excuse to do far greater damage and also knows he can't win?
Take this scenario, a small kid in playground is approached by 4 kids much bigger than him. The 4 kids start pushing him too and for between them shouting "You startin'?" - a few things can happen here.
1. They continue to push him around until he falls over, they give him a swift kick and walk off having gotten bored.
2. He forcably frees himself from the shoving by pushing one kid out his way, that kid then screams "You started it!" uses the physical contact as an excuse, and punches him in the face, he goes down (The kid is afterall twice his size) and all 4 kick and punch him til they get bored.
3. He forceably slugs the aggressor in the face who reels back, the 3 other kids now lay into him and beat him even harder than they would've done normally, *and* he has to see the headmaster for assaulting another pupil.
4. He tries walk away, whereas one kid kicks him in the small of the back so he goes down, then walks away before anyone notices.
Believe me, I tried every option and all of them turned out for the the worse - trial and error proved (for me) that #1 was the most effective option, well if I wanted to get out my childhood alive. I wasn't wrong either; the year after I left a kid at the school had to be rushed to intensive care after being strangled til he stopped breathing.
Also if aggression makes for stronger character, and being bullied makes me more likely to become a bully in later life - how come one of my tormentors at school far from becoming an upstanding and strong willed citizen, ended up on public television after being court martialed in the army having been videotaped beating up Iraqi kids?
We all walk different paths.. what you experienced is not what other have..
Tell that to women.. one out of 3 women will be sexually in her lifetime... My best friend was raped... my sister, two friends and I have been approached by rapist/serial killers...on respective different occasions... not being a victim save us.....my neighbor was sexually assaulted as was my husband secretary.. she would be here to tell you but he drowned her in her bathtub..... my friend who was sexually assaulted had a knife to her throat after he broke into her apartment while she was in bed asleep.. she is a physcian.. it took her 15 yrs just to be able to sleep in the dark.
and there are many more... Those of us who escaped were the lucky ones... and we fought back, so did the one who was murdered.. the predator had sexually assaulted 10 women in the area, even with his friends in his apartment... my husbands secretary was the first to be killed.. I sat through the entire trial.. I was the only person allowed because I knew the prosecutor , DA and judge... it was a closed trial. I even was allowed to look at the evidence. My doctor friend lived with my husband and me for one year until her therapy worked and she secured a new home with security...
I have worked more rape crises cases than anyone would want to know...
I can say.. never become a victim minded person..