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I take it this is a joke :confused: otherwise I would class this as nonsense.

Haha, good movie btw. I suppose a better question would be under what circumstances exactly would you step in to any situation of a random stranger knowing that it could be your your last day as a mortal on earth for the benefit of society and to better the nation?

Correct, hence the point of the thread.

I meant if it turned sour, imagine if the police were called and then he pulled a knife on the passenger. And let’s say I stepped in but failed to disarm the offender, and am lying in a pool of blood after being stabbed later dying the next day. The nation would be far worse off without me...

Great stuff :p Legend m8, legend.

By helping protect the streets, you are a small cog in society helping to better the nation and if you happen to get killed in the line of this civic duty, will you be mourned by the nation? Therefore, Is it worth potentially putting your life on the line? Or better just leave it to the cops...

You perhaps missed the point. What if a 3rd person intervened to stop the argument and was killed. If it was a police officer, then the officer would be commended as killed in the line of duty helping to protect the nation, but if poor old me was killed, you would not even blink an eye even if...

Armed military combat is the military potentially dying to save us from takeover by another nation Unarmed civilian combat is potentially dying on the street to save your countrymen and nation from a criminal takeover by armed drug barons etc. through a random/planned encounter I have more...

:p Tell that to the soldiers who lost their lives in the Iraq war old chum ;)

No. Alas, there is no training for this for the common man, but common sense does come into play.. you can shout and use distractions, possibly even try to trip them up and pin their arm down until formal help arrives.

Helping someone random is society albeit with risk is what it is. Would you thank me or attend my funeral if I got shanked and maybe died?

Why not the UK, am I to take it we are not your fellow compatriots and would not do the same for you sir? :confused:

Do you not live in the UK? Are you not part of a collective society? Have you never interacted with any one of us since your birth? :confused: Would you not lay down your life to better the nation either financially or otherwise?

No, he was just being a t*sspot

This :)

Clearly still a man so punchy :p

True, but males are stronger than females in general so it is not a fair fight.

In both cases, I would like to disarm her as gently as possible.

In war, both sides are usually armed and trained for battle and ready to give up their life for their nation. Walking to M&S, seeking some jerk nick a mobile phone for example from a stranger and being stabbed and dying later after intervening is more tragic I feel, hence the headline.

Possibly so, but I simply wont do it even if they are armed.