My alarms are losing their hearing due to old age.
I don’t know what kind of violent allergic reaction I would have to someone hurting them but, I do have an extremely long memory...
Time to get a new one going... they take a while to program properly. I like a redundant alarm, but I install them approximately every seven years or so, so that when the older system is starting to develop problems, the new system is at it's prime, fully programmed. It also helps me emotionally to have the secondary around when the primary ceases to function, and that secondary (now primary) system is invaluable in programming a new system.
I don’t know what kind of violent allergic reaction I would have to someone hurting them but, I do have an extremely long memory...
I hear you - In that moment, in full defense mode, with aggression at it's ultimate peak, and adrenaline pumping through my system, I am running on something very akin to instinct... I do not know if I would care to stop myself... That, I think, is the point of the spear. If I had the time to think it through, I doubt I would take the same decisions, but what I am capable of in that very moment is another thing (similar conditions have happened before).