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This comment is so ignorant it makes me sad. What about Sumo and Kendo? (and many others). A quick Wikipedia quote:

"Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practices, which are practiced for a variety of reasons: self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, entertainment, as well as mental, physical, and spiritual development."

I guess it's hard for you to understand the value of physical health, entertainment, mental, physical and spiritual development. This is something that people in these boards should value a lot more, and that can have a huge impact in your life.

Sorry for the long reply, but your comment made me feel sad for you.

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I appreciated most comments that replied to my post. I made it clear that "i thought" that way, because i wasn't sure if my thoughts represented facts or not. Most of the other comments take the time to provide helpful information and educate me, which is cool and what i hoped for.

Only you take the time to belittle me based off 2 sentences.

In the same vein as you presume to proscribe to the rest of the board that they need to lead better lives, i ask you to please try and lead a more compassionate life. :)

Hey there,

My comment was -indeed- actually trying to be educative, at least it was my goal.

In my phrase I should have stated that I was referring to many people that spend most of the day in boards like this one, I made a mistake and generalised in my statement.

> "This is something that people in these boards should value a lot more"

should be:

> "This is something that a lot of people in these boards should value a lot more".

I'm guessing the phrase the other poster was objecting to is "I guess it's hard for you to understand...".

Honestly, a complete list of phrases in there that were inappropiate and/or based on assumptions unsupported by my comment is:

"so ignorant it makes me sad" - yes it was ignorant, as i admitted and explained in why i used the wording i did, and certainly not an ignorance i cling to, so the sad part just comes across as a holier-than-thou ad hominem

"I guess it's hard for you to understand" - that phrase in its own is pretty bad

"I guess it's hard for you to understand the value of physical health, entertainment, mental, physical and spiritual development." - i had just come from the gym, don't think i need to say more to that

"This is something that people in these boards should value a lot more" - who says i don't, i didn't even say it was worthless

"sorry ... your comment made me feel sad for you." - both a non-apology and a needless ad hominem

Edit: I love how the downvotes on this only serve to demonstrate how some parts of this community actively loathe discourse in dialogue.

I don't get why you're being downvoted to oblivion. You were perfectly polite. So people disagree with you about the definition of martial art. So what?

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