Learning to Love Indifference

[Stranger]

That is where my point comes up though, even if there isn't intent to harm, harm sometimes happens in the course of events. Even if your intent is to limit harm to yourself and your attacker, the fact is that their intention may still have been to harm you, and so if in the process of attempting to limit harm you harm them it would not be considered an infringement. If you had've brought the chair down, knowing the harm to be in excess of the limit of harm, then you would have gone beyond the law and then been infringing yourself.

Also, where's the place for the people who genuinely enjoy fighting for fun? For example, I know plenty of LARPers who are very in to mock-combat. I think there has to be a line drawn between actual malicious antagonism, violent intent and the use of martial arts (key word arts). Many people who are in to martial arts aren't interested in harming others, but many will gladly exchange blows with another martial artist for enjoyment. I think that violence isn't always so clearly defined as negative.

I agree with everything you said there. As I mentioned, the intent and the type of emotion generated can imbue the same event with very different true meaning.