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Always escape. If you are confronted with fighting and can't escape, end the encounter as quickly as possible and then escape the moment you can.
And also, even if you outclass or get a one-up on your attacker and end up disabling their ability to harm you, you can still be held legally liable for further injuring them, even if you are the defender in the scenario. Just get out. Investigations have ways of deciphering whether an injury was actually caused by self-defense or not.
And if it's absolutely a life and death situation, then fuck honor. Honor doesn't matter if you or your loved ones are dead.
The best self-defense strategy the large majority of the time is having the awareness to prevent encounters in the first place.