Hello gentle people,
I have a question for you... one which has troubled me for a very long time. I have had long discussions with various like minded people concerning this topic. Many of these luminaries have reached decidedly dissonant opinions, and all with good reason.
This is a question which, I believe, it is not prudent to answer with great haste but nonetheless must be asked. Therefore, I humbly request to offer for your patient consideration the following proposal:
Which is to be preferred, smash or slash?
I prefer slash. I feel that it is more beautiful than widespread force.
Slash.
A nice, clean cut.
Certainly did we all ponder upon the same dilemma at one point in our lives.
A blunt impact of a stern hammer could indeed produce envious results when applied against one's visage, deterring away facial features in ways not appropriate.
On the other hand however, we have the delicate motion of the blade, exposing innards and insides alike, disposing appendages or simply artisting the skin.
It is, with some distaste, that I admit my own preference over the wide possibilities given by a slash.
Slash is certainly a worthy choice. I often meditate on the possibilities of precision smashing, however. Consider, if you will, the effects of a well placed impact brought to bare against a delicate joint. A rounded chisel could be applied most liberally across all such fragile areas, including the jaw, temple, hands, and feet. Bones may be shattered without causing massive blood loss and the injuries do not entail the risk of infection.
Also, barring amputation, once a person has been smashed they will never be the same again. Scars may heal, and plastic surgery may hide the evidence... but properly shattered joints are irreparable.
Furthermore, once an appendage has been amputated the pain is localized to the nerve centers around the cut. Smashing induced pain along every centimeter of the bone, and the shards may wiggle through the flesh causing torment with every motion.
I must confess to a certain proclivity for slashing. One clean cut and all your inner most workings are laid bare, exposed for all the world to see.
While I'm usually the type of person who would enjoy engaging in this sort of humorous satirical and erudite manner of conversation, I'm simply going to leave it at a rather terse and forthright opinion.
Slash. The adroit dexterity and damage demonstrated by the slim and vicious blade is simply much classier and poetically beautiful then some ruffian hammerhead's exposition.
Being of a more.. feral.. disposition than many, I must say that I prefer a nice bite to either the worthy slash or smash.
A flash of light, a flash of blood, a flash of pain: a slash is much more subtle and delicate, a precision instrument, and much more pure. Conceptually, at least, I prefer the slash.
However, I must admit to a certain affinity for the smash. I'm a fighter by nature, and utilize both the kobutan and unarmed styles. While my words whisper slash, my deeds scream SMASH!, and it is done.
Smashing is so vulgar, and slashing so multifaceted. Slash wins, by a long shot.
slashing is sort of more poetic
I'm also a fighter. While I drool over swords styles I am trained to use either unarmed attacks or escrima sticks. So functionally I guess I'm a smasher too.
The stuff a good rattan stick will do to a poor bastard is worthy of song. It is a simple thing to dent steel with a good solid blow and when you strike one stick against another they warm and throw smoke and sparks. It's a lot of fun.
If I was going to kill somebody with my bare hands (figuratively) I would probably beat them to a pulp with either sticks, pipes, or two hammers.
The poet in me longs for a delicate sword wielded with skill, but the savage desires demand smash.
While there is a finesse and art to slash (and that these indeed make it my first choice), I must admit that there is something liberating and direct about smash that slash could never hope to capture.
Smash. I see the beauty in a blade, I really do. But for me, absolutely nothing beats black, blue, and purple against pale skin. Also it just feels better doing it, you get out a lot of anger the smash way.
Slash. Like mentioned before, it's clean cut. Also, watching a glossy and polished blade penetrating through flesh and blood is much more captivating.
I have an affinity for both equally. There is a time to slash and a time to smash. However, I feel that viewing the slash as the artistic or poetic option while the smash as the brutish manner to be rather close minded. One can apply a few "delicate" smashes to areas just as one can throw several "ugly" slashes.
I will say that I view the stab to be more intimate than the slash or the smash due to it's similarities to sexual intercourse, but I feel that that is for another discussion.
>>12
Yes! Somebody else who understands :) It's not easy to inconspicuously wield two sticks, though. I prefer low-profile ass-kickings myself. I guess that's another reason I avoid blades.
MAIM! KILL! BURN! SMASH!
