PEACENEGOTIATOR: Is there honor in the martial arts profession?

Tony H said, "Hey guy, this might be a question for your local district attorney's office."





Sometimes, in life, the law will not protect you and courts are of little or no use. So, in such a case, it would be very proper to go to the entire martial arts community and to ask the question or to pose the question to them:





"Is there honor in the martial arts profession?" and "Where (to what extent) does honor lie?"





Max,


unranked Tai Chi and kungfu,


peacenegotiator


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PEACENEGOTIATOR: Is there honor in the martial arts profession?
It sound like you've been on this subject for about three questions now. So I figure I might share a little perspective.





These days, few people seem to know what it means to be professional, as opposed to acting out of personal wants.


When speaking of honor: Honor from oneself is usually about what you're doing (and/or what your becoming), while honor for another is often about what that person has done.





It's easy to forget, as a modern warrior, where the martial arts come from. And although 'decent' people wouldn't want to think it, everyone has as much a potential to be an enemy (or wrongdoer), as they do to be a ally/ friend. Sometimes the error lies in assuming things are always as they should be or the way we want them to be.





"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." — Robert E. Howard, The Tower of the Elephant





"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them." - Mark Twain
Reply:Sure it is.





Honor is one of the many reasons that i started MA and been having the passion and devotion to wards it for few decades now.





As matter of fact as you're well aware of, Honor and discipline are the foundation of MMA.





Although sadly, the fundamental of MMA ( as far as Honor, respect and discipline are concerned) have slightly changed in new generation but it's not completely erased!





I'm more fascinated by the ''Samurai's way %26amp; spirit''.





The way they incorporated Honor in their daily lives.


Every aspect of their lives were affected by Honor.





I always admire how Japanese are still carrying out their ancestors way of lives and still affected by their rule of thumb.


Which is Honor!





Good for them.
Reply:You seem determined to work this subject to death.


We need WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE WHY on both sides of the issue.To ask us to base our answers on honor is a smoke screen to get the answers you want as we all know what honor is but we dont know who and what the hell you are talking about.
Reply:Sure there's honor in it. Most instructors are very respectable people.