I read this earlier today, have boxed/wrestled/MMA/BJJ/combatives/etc all my life, and am pretty ambivalent about your reasoning.

I'm a huge advocate for people feeling confident in their ability to utilize their body, but framing it as protection for yourself and others feels like wishful thinking at best...

and actively dangerous at worst. 

If you're in a serious situation with somebody even a little bit bigger than you (even if you're trained), 9 times out of 10 the best action is   to run away as fast as you can.

And if they have any sort of weapon (which any agent of anomie is likely to have), then running away or...

thank goodness someone has some actual sense here…and of course, it’s from someone whose trained

Good to have someone with actual experience saying this.

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