non-profit stuff that is better than for-profit stuff

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Your logic is fundamentally flawed. If the majority of consumers in this market wanted the same thing you want, then the classes offered by the for-profit schools would reflect that.


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Just like the majority of consumers of used cars want to buy lemons, right?

I can 100% swear to you that the people in these McDojos are mainly interested in self-defense, and if they knew that the training they received didn't work, they wouldn't go there.

The key thing to realize here is that there is no legitimate transaction taking place. If I say I will sell you an insurance policy on your home, and it's not worth the paper it's printed on, what *exactlty* have I sold you. Surely, it's not what you "demanded"

People are being sold an insurance policy on getting attacked. Usually, they're not gonna get attacked, and they're think "oh my training is GREAT!" and no harm will be done to them. Similarly, usually your house won't be destroyed in a hurricane, and in that case, I'm not really harming you am I?

The utter lack of market dynamics in this field is astounding. If people were getting attacked on the street all the time, or AT LEAST if they classes had real sparring or did competitions, THEN you could argue that the students were getting what they demanded.

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It's not yours or anyone else's responsibility to force people to take certain kinds of martial arts classes just because you think it would be better for them.



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Who is talking about forcing anyone to do anything? This thread isn't about the state. DIDN'T YOU READ THE VERY FIRST SENTENCE IN MY POST? If there were a ballot measure to ban fantasy martial arts schools, I would vote against it.