Ah. It drives me bonkers, because "warrior" has so much very serious stuff attached to it, imo. Putting it on the same level as "athlete" seems to cause impressionable athletes to think they are indeed warriors.
Philosophically, though it is without question that games are preferable to undiluted violence, I feel that I train not for the art aspect, but for the martial aspect. That is to say, that I don't care if my form is perfectly beautiful, or what color my belt is. I want to know how to master violence in preparation to the possibility of having to use it.
If there does come a time when I have to use it - and I would much rather have and not need it - then I want it to do it's job efficiently and effectively. I find it to be a matter with a lot of ethical and moral gravity, so I get all ruffled when people don't seem to pay attention the the very important difference between the real stuff, and the game stuff.
Even more so that the game stuff is glamorized. Let's glamorize gentle hippies.
That is not to say that I consider myself any kind of warrior, either. Far from it.
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Philosophically, though it is without question that games are preferable to undiluted violence, I feel that I train not for the art aspect, but for the martial aspect. That is to say, that I don't care if my form is perfectly beautiful, or what color my belt is. I want to know how to master violence in preparation to the possibility of having to use it.
If there does come a time when I have to use it - and I would much rather have and not need it - then I want it to do it's job efficiently and effectively.
I find it to be a matter with a lot of ethical and moral gravity, so I get all ruffled when people don't seem to pay attention the the very important difference between the real stuff, and the game stuff.
Even more so that the game stuff is glamorized. Let's glamorize gentle hippies.
That is not to say that I consider myself any kind of warrior, either. Far from it.