lklawson
Grandmaster
No, that's not true at all. JitteJutsu has long been regarded as being intended "to enable non-lethal disarmament and apprehension of criminals who were usually carrying a sword." And the European Smallsword or "Court Sword" is a Civilian Self Defense weapon, typically considered poorly suited to "war," often used for civilian dueling, and often believed to have been developed independent from "war" weapons as a result of prohibitions.All martial arts (speaking for traditional) were designed for killing people and originated from wars.
Some people do, some don't, and the "masters of old" were want to write and teach a lot about philosophy and harmony.Today, we don't practice like masters of old times and there are lots of philosophies about harmony, spirituality etc.
This is wrong. There are still plenty of people training for straight up killing.With social development, we no longer have the need to use martial arts for killing and train only for defending ourselves.
Peace favor your sword,
Kirk