A number of physical confrontations cannot be avoided by “changing them into lively conversation”. As anyone who ever got bullied in school will tell you, reasoning with, or ignoring, a certain type of people, will not work.

Aikido is not “us dancing life”. It is a martial art. The only vibrational level that matters is that of the attacker’s jaw meeting with your atemi, followed by an enthusiastic throw.

Everything else usually degrades to narcissistic, theoretical pontifications, as case in point may be.