This attitude in general confounds me, especially from someone that studies martial arts.
Is not the underlying premise of just about every martial art to train yourself to be a better fighter? I know some styles have become disconnected from that idea, but even they generally started that way. So why would witnessing the endgame of these skills being put to use in actual competition be problematic?
there are multiple phylosopicaly objections to it.
not sure where to start, ,,, i don't like to hurt anybody or anything, i just don't get pleasure from inflicting harm or death, i go to sometimes ridicules lengths not to harm insects or slugs. I find people who hunt animals for pleasure abhorrent. That's not to say that I don't recognise that animals have to be killed, for food,to protect humans etc. But that's a necessity of survival, not a pass time for pleasure.
i have then the same ethos with ma, there are times when i have had to hurt people who are a threat to my well being, physically or mentally, that's not something i derive pleasure from, . I don't therefore get vicarious pleasure from watching other people hurt others.
i can appreciate the skill that's used, but watching two blokes smash each other to a pulp is not an entertainment i enjoy.
boxing is bad enough, but there are limited to the violence that hopefully stops short of it just being a blood bath. Those controls are a lot laxer in mma and the,amount of damaged caused much greater. The one i did watch had fight after fight that should have been stopped, ether because it was an obvious mismatch or because of the damage done, but they let it continue, as the baying crowds wanted to,see more blood and harm inflicted , u till one was beaten unconscious
young men some times want to fight, just as,dogs do, that is their concern, making it into an multi million pound entrainment industry, has no place in a civilized society
