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Joe Curran wrote:
Mary,
Picking a fight with no opponent is preferable to picking a fight with an opponent.
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But that's a false dichotomy, isn't it? How about
: if there's no opponent, if no one's attacking you, why fight at all?
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Joe Curran wrote:
I think this question about the effectiveness has been done to death.If so why is the subject being discussed again? Can't we think of better things to discuss herein?
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Some people can't, no. For some people, that's a central issue they have to resolve since they're studying a martial art, and the only acceptable resolution for them is one that involves physically schooling their opponent. Personally, I don't know that it's so much that aikido gives us other choices in conflict (I believe it does, but not without a lot of work), as that life gives us those other choices. It's kind of dumb to use a martial art, any martial art, to solve a problem that could better be solved with a different set of tools.