(03-12-2025, 02:04 PM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote: First off, the show bored the hell out of me until Kwai Chang beat the hell out of the ignorant cowboys and racist bigots. It was true for me then, even more so now. Even as a kid, I felt he should have done more than self-defense and laid in with a few extra blows or special moves to teach them a good lesson they'd understand.
That wouldn't work from either a practical or a philosophical standpoint. You can beat a man into knowledge, but you can't beat a man into intelligence. That would be like trying to beat the spots off of a leopard.
So, such a beating would only "teach a lesson" of how to better hide it, not a lesson in thinking from a higher vantage point. In other words, you'd just teach them to be sneakier about it, and that would get passed on to their offspring.
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