FIGHTING

At a private conference this week, I was asked what I think of Mark Zuckerberg’s recent MMA training, Elon Musk’s challenge to a cage fight, and public reports that a Zuckerberg/Musk MMA fight may well happen later this year, perhaps in the actual Roman Colosseum...

FIGHTING

At a private conference this week, I was asked what I think of Mark Zuckerberg’s recent MMA training, Elon Musk’s challenge to a cage fight, and public reports that a Zuckerberg/Musk MMA fight may well happen later this year, perhaps in the actual Roman Colosseum...

https://pmarca.substack.com/p/fighting

I read this earlier today, have boxed/wrestled/MMA/BJJ/combatives/etc all my life, and am pretty ambivalent about your reasoning.

I'm a huge advocate for people feeling confident in their ability to utilize their body, but framing it as protection for yourself and others feels like wishful thinking at best...

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and actively dangerous at worst. 

If you're in a serious situation with somebody even a little bit bigger than you (even if you're trained), 9 times out of 10 the best action is   to run away as fast as you can.

And if they have any sort of weapon (which any agent of anomie is likely to have), then running away or...

Cross country is the most effective form of self-defense

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