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Katherine Derbyshire wrote:
Society as a whole places no particular value on martial skill
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Sure, but martial arts/budo subculture has a different set of values, and martial skill is appreciated.
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Who, other than the practitioner, is in a position to say that one path is more valuable than another?
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I'll going to pursue "the path of theoretical physics", even if I can't tell a sqare root from a potato... who other than me would be in a position to say my "path of theoretical physics" lacks value?