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I think a fairer comparison than LARP is martial arts training. As you say it mostly doesn't matter if you get on the head, but people think they are preparing
by im3w1l 7y ago
I think a fairer comparison than LARP is martial arts training. As you say it mostly doesn't matter if you get on the head, but people think they are preparing for a situation where it will matter. And in most cases they are wrong.
- tptacek 7y agoIf that's what encrypted email was, I'd agree, but it is not; it is more akin to taking a children's martial arts class for a month and then physically resisting an armed mugger.
- NateEag 7y agoYou may be missing that most martial arts people practice are for exercise and social display, not for self-defense or killing. If it has katas/forms, if certain moves are proscribed during sparring, or if your teachers have not told you the catch-22 about there being no morally acceptable way to practice genuine kill shots even though they're all that really matters, then you are not preparing for self-defense in a life-and-death struggle. So, martial arts may be the appropriate metaphor. Disclaimer: My knowledge here is limited to a few years of kung fu as a kid, a lot of armchair research in the past five years, and an old friend who used to place at multi-state competitions. I'm not an expert so I could be off here.
- dTal 7y agoThat analogy would work if: 1) the mugger was going to attack you anyway, and does so every day 2) the "martial arts" was a vicious form of Krav Maga taught to CIA operatives, that was a state secret until a few decades ago Seems like an unqualified win to me.