O'Neal knows this better than anybody. When you're fighting for your life and the lives of your brothers, you're not gonna notice an ice pick in the skin of your elbow until it's all over. If you're strong and well-trained and have your shit together you'll do what you gotta do until your body shuts you down.
But a man's gotta make a living, and why not make it off the thousands of tacticool mall ninjas out there. I got no problem with them stabbing each other with ice picks.