Within the self-defense world, a constant debate rages on regarding how ferocious you should train yourself to be. Should we train ourselves to be resolute and to resort to any means necessary unthinkingly? How burdened by the risk of consequences should we allow ourselves to become? In this podcast, we discuss various perspectives and establish some potential tenets and guidelines for assessing our training. Regardless of what you train or even whether you train, understanding and challenging your underlying view of violence and aggression is essential and potentially transformative.