Comments by "Snack Plissken" (@snackplissken8192) on "Male VS Female in Combat - Olympic Sports And Warfare THE TRUTH" video.

  1. I think it's more fair to say that weapons have an additive effect to physical strength on lethality, rather than a multiplicative effect. People with physical advantages still have an advantage all other factors being equal, but the more lethal the weapon, the smaller the relative advantage becomes. If a weapon were a multiplier then we wouldn't say that "God made man, Colt made him equal" because the gun would then make brutes vastly more lethal than the average men. You don't need to be Mr. Atlas to launch a nuke, and a child pressing the launch button would not make it any less lethal. Klavan does not know about armed combat. He is a screenwriter. Clearly, none of them know anything about combat. I think it is probably fair to him to say that he is comparing a layman's view of the relative realism of something like The Last Duel, which isn't a wire-work CGI fantasy fight, to Hollywood superhero movie waif-fu where a 90 lb woman can send a full-grown man flying with the slightest touch. He is clearly overstating his case for reality but not for his native film industry's depiction of reality, which I suspect is more what he is actually describing. If he were to watch HEMA instead of Hollywood, my guess is he would probably try to meet reality closer to the middle.
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