The love of fighting and other topics

[nancylebovitz]

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Eric Raymond writes about why he loves martial arts, sword camp, and the possibility that some men are optimized for fighting. The comments include more about mental states, evolution, why how you look isn't informative about how useful your body is, crossfit training, and stretching.

[Steven Barnes]

Thanks! I'll peek at it soon. The most basic reason that some men are optimized for fighting is that there are too many situations where such optimization is all that will keep your family or village alive. Those who couldn't fight were killed, and unable to pass on either genes or memes.