When it's needed?

We were talking the other day about having our marital arts when needed, and that it was good, but that got me to thinking about when it's not.

There is a reason that in the olden days warriors were separated from others, it was because if they were to be in peak, they were always training. So, if you read the old samurai tales about honor, people who misstepped were frequently killed, because the samurai lived that way all the time. Many other cultures did the same. This separation was so that warriors had it with them all the time, whether needed or not. If a suspicious movement was seen, then that object was cut down, without question.

Today, if we were to train to be active always, we would be in jail. To be ready always would put so many other people in danger. However, not to be might be putting ourselves in danger. The downside is "American Culture" being whatever for whoever, means that people don't know how to act respectfully towards one another. This creates a problem, a split-second of indecision can be the difference in life and death, but that split-second of pause is what keeps people living.