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What is self-defense?

What is self-defense? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The means of defending oneself from physical attack.
  2. (law) The right to protect oneself against violence by using reasonable force, which can be used as justification in several charges including murder, assault, and battery.
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You have to read 2,600 words beyond the lede before you're offered his self-defense.
Since, in the last analysis, self-determination means self-defense, it would provide, although dilatorily, assistance in military organization.
Women in Baton Rouge are taking self-defense courses, arming themselves with tasers, pepper spray and mace.
I'm a grown person with masculine proclivities and habits of self-defense, but there is a time when all systems of egotism and predominance fail.
Still others would say it is a martial art, a self-defense system, or a form of combat.
He summarized much legal and philosophical argument by specifying four criteria of preemption as self-defense.

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