Yes, you can improve your chances of self-protection without resulting in violence.      Most of us view self-defense as an aggressive program that is focused around injuring an assailant.  If you were to consider training in Self-Defense, you will very often come across training programs that are focused on the opposite of self-defense. Meaning, they appear to be more offensive and in many cases almost purely offensive.        We can imagine a video where participants are kicking and striking would be assailants. In truth, this appears to be the opposite of what self-defense could mean. What would that opposite words be for the words Self and Defense? We would simply need to reverse the wording and consider antonyms.  Self = OtherDefense = Offense      The above two swaps are the easiest conclusions to arrive at and combined; they equal to:    Other-Offense    Which can simply be defined as attacking, injuring or harming others or as:    Offense to others    As the always awesome and amazing Chuck Norris put it in an…