water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Life is a lot more fragile than most people think. It takes a surprisingly little amount of energy to totally incapacitate, maim, or kill someone. Think how easy it is to tear something.. now imagine its the skin that covers your face. It doesnt take someone who can bench 750lbs to tear skin. An eye can be dislodged from its socket with almost zero effort involved. Getting kicked in the face with any amount of force there is a decent chance of shattering a cheekbone. Putting a stick or piece of metal into someones back severing their spine is not some mythical thing that has never happened before.SapientWolf said:
Most normal people have things ingrained into them from infancy. Stuff like not hurting people or holding back when fighting. Special forces training (even basic military training really) is a breaking down of that. For that job it is a necessity. There cannot be hesitation or restraint. With how vulnerable the human body is, even much smaller people when faced with a life or death situation can become extremely lethal. Special forces need to have the ability to turn this on and off with an order. There should be no doubts or other thoughts, only the charge or objective, the obstacles, and how to achieve them as quickly and as best as possible.
This does not make sf trained people unbeatable supermen.. its just that the approach to handling situations is on a completely different mental level. How many times has an mma fighter in their entire career had to ignore their own life to best someone at any cost?
