PSA: If you can't fight, learn to fucking fight.

Learning self-defense (for the sake of minimizing injury and defusing conflict) is well and good, but a universal call for people to learn to punch and take punches is not good.

Cauliflower ear is indicative of head trauma, and therefore suggestive of mild brain damage. Boxing and football stars have shown how ugly people's lives can become when their brains are routinely jostled around. I'm sure it's possible to box reasonably safely; but street fighting with genuine enemies is a last resort for anybody who wants to be a good human.

If people must fight for political justice, they must either do it with words, do it physically in a way that does NOT expose the skull to battering, or give up on a crucial part of the justice they are trying to promote.

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