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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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Since, in the last analysis, self-determination means self-defense, it would provide, although dilatorily, assistance in military organization.
Still others would say it is a martial art, a self-defense system, or a form of combat.
Women in Baton Rouge are taking self-defense courses, arming themselves with tasers, pepper spray and mace.
You have to read 2,600 words beyond the lede before you're offered his self-defense.
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.
He shoots ducks, pheasants, wild boar, and in self-defense he wouldn't hesitate to kill a bear.

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