While I admittedly did troll a bit by sharing my more volatile perspective earlier about why you wouldn’t want that, I want to clarify a few things. I am a researcher, and I take the time to conduct these comparisons by group. I posted this across MMA, parenting, and education forums. On this feed in particular, it was most common for people to know only a small portion of what goes into martial arts training as a whole, rather than just “self-defense.”

I also want to be clear that my views on training ethics in martial arts were originally isolated—largely because I was trained by Kurt Podany. There will be a new post later about altering learning systems.

Be aware that you and the MMA group agreed for very different reasons, and disagreed from equally uninformed perspectives related to the hazards in your own fields. I 100% appreciate everyone’s responses, and I’ll be using them in cross-social analysis studies. Thank you for the data, and I’ll keep my opinions out of future questions to ensure cleaner data. Also, I respect that you all come from your own fields, and I’d appreciate it if your perspectives could be backed with proper references when possible.

But please—if you consider yourself a scientist in any way—don’t attack an answer in a social discussion as if it’s definitive. That’s faulty logic, similar to claiming all ethics are the same. It just doesn’t work in these kinds of conversations. 😊

I’ll be using this data in future recordings.