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The Deadliest Warrior And The Human Spirit
People from every culture wonder how their best and bravest would stack up against another culture's warriors, but most people deciding who would win along the lines of natural or ethnic pride. In the realm of fiction a new genre called alternative history tries to answer what would happen if warriors from different time periods met on the field of battle.
While these debates will probably go on forever the cable TV show Deadliest Warrior tries to scientifically answer the question of who would win in a straight up fight. Now the producers of the show seem to put in a lot of effort to make the fights fair, but the one thing they can't measure is the will of an individual to fight and win regardless of the odds.
Deadliest Warrior is a TV show that can be seen on the American cable channel Spike a division of MTV Networks (it can be seen in the UK on Bravo). Each weeks two team representing different warrior groups compete against each other. Rather than have martial arts experts kill each other week to week the producers employ Geoff Desmoulin who uses a number of high tech devices to measure the raw killing power of many different weapons.
In addition to that they have a medical doctor Armand Dorian review the damage done to targets, dummies, equipment, and even animal caucuses to further determine the damage done by the weapons wielded by the modern warriors. All the data is processed by Max Geiger who runs it through a program created by Slitherine Strategies UK ltd which manufactures many different war games. All this should produce a fair result and end the debate forever right?
Well, we have all seen or been in fights where the winner wasn't who it should have been and there is a terrific upset. Even the great military strategist Sun Tzu believed that if you put men in an impossible position they will do the impossible to survive. Now take the Yakuza vs. Mafia both criminal groups are trained, motivated, and have an intense rivalry, and if you can't measure how it effects combat and if you can't you can't determine who'd win.
The will to fight can never be measured by a machine and human history is filled with examples of people persevering against the odds.
In the end Deadliest Warrior can't answer the question of who is the ultimate killing machine because there are so many other factors. Besides the warrior spirit terrain, weapons technology, and tactics play a major part. If a ninja ran into a Spartan warrior he wouldn't try to take on such an imposing warrior straight on, he'd simply cut his throat at night or poison his food.
When the show did pitted a pirate against a knight they completely neglected the fact that the knight was mounted, and if it had been raining the pirate's firearms wouldn't have mattered as much. When a Viking warrior faces off against a Samurai the samurai simply had better more advanced equipment. At the end of the day there are to many factors to determine who would win a fight, so try to get as much in your favor as possible, but keep fighting.
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