Quote Originally Posted by taai gihk yahn View Post
exactly; all that stuff about good character, integrity, honesty amongst TCMA practitioners - bollocks; that was all reverse engineered onto it to make it appealing to the more respectable "weekend warrior" types who wanted to be "gentleman scholar / fighters" (nothing's really changed, LOL); this made it more in sync w/Confuscian value system (Taoists, OTOH, would be the first to tell you that "life is thievery" and would laugh if you started preaching morality); it was further propagated within the wushu construct; but go back a bit in time, and you see that most TCMA, especially the really good fighters, were survivalists, not ethicists...
Yet many sifus do their best to teach people of good character (and of course dedication) and refuse people they deem rif raf. I have met such sifus, but obviously you haven't. So maybe morality is relative for you, but not the rest of us.

Furthermore if instructors were choosier about who they taught then perhaps we would not have some of the negative press as MMA-ists. Just a thought.