You can probably have more defensive capability than you realize:
I've never heard of that but I dig it!!
Reminds me of The Bridge Builder:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52702/the-bridge-builder
I guess for me it's more about submission and humbleness to something I'm ultimately accountable to. Not so much about actual rules and shit... but more like God's out there and He can strike me down whenever He chooses so I need to keep my shit straight while I'm on this Earth.
If that makes sense?
I was going to say anything made by Grizzly. Probably the best reputation in the machining industry there is for light use milling setups.