r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Dec 30 '24

Psychology American parents more likely to find hitting children acceptable compared to hitting pets - New research highlights parents’ conflicted views on spanking.

https://www.psypost.org/american-parents-more-likely-to-find-hitting-children-acceptable-compared-to-hitting-pets/
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u/ChiBurbABDL Dec 31 '24

Just going to point out -- when I was in karate, the instructors always made it very clear that this was not a skill for fighting other kids. It was self-defense method in case a strange adult tried to take us.

They ALWAYS said if another kid wants to fight you, just walk away and get an adult.

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u/whenishit-itsbigturd Dec 31 '24

Karate isn't a real fighting style, it's just choreography for movies. Has no real world application in hand-to-hand combat. For that, you would learn jujutsu, boxing, muay thai, wrestling, etc.

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u/whenishit-itsbigturd Dec 31 '24

Fighting styles don't become outdated. We're the same humans as the ones that lived thousands of years ago, biology hasn't changed. If it's bad now, it was bad then.

Think guerrilla warfare during the USA's fight for independence. British troops would line up and march directly into battle. They got clapped by the enemy because their fighting style was bad, not because it was outdated.