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I find it interesting that the conversation twenty years ago was about fantasy violence that people knew was against others. Now we see that training yourself to harm others as quickly and effectively as possible is now seeing acceptance on network television.

Working with elementary school kids daily, I see the way kids who's parents currently allow them to immerse themselves in the MMA culture are much quicker to escalate situations into violence compared to those who are still watching the Disney channel.

Having studied martial arts for some time myself, I have found there are two schools of thought: those of us who follow the gentle way of establishing dominance over a foe while causing the least harm possible, and those who relish violence as it's own end and desire to establish their own dominance through harming others. I highly respect martial arts, but I find MMA to be an affront to the ethics I was taught while studying martial arts.

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