Let's go to line two and talk to Jordan and Pensacola.

I've been doing some mixed martial arts training recently and I've been given the

opportunities to fight real life and I was just wondering, would what I'm trying to do be

considered immoral?

Well, I look at it this way.

If you're engaging in a sport for the sake of the sport,

it's a competitive sport, and there's no undue risk that you can harm your health, then I don't

think that there's a moral problem there. But, and I'm thinking about things like boxing, which has been proven to be physically very

dangerous for those who get, you know, concussions and things like that.

It can even kill you.

So to my mind, looking at the Fifth Commandment, Thou shalt not kill, has to be part of evaluating

something like this by saying, you know, it's not just killing people,

but also doing injury to the body unnecessarily. If you get into a fight to defend your wife

who's being attacked and you get banged up, well, that's the price of doing business. And you do

what you have to do. But if you're getting banged up and

physically harmed for no good reason, that's where I would say it's either right by the line

of what could be sinful or maybe even crossing over. Because if there's no compelling reason

to do something that would bring harm to you, physical harm,

then I would say don't do it.

In a way, it's kind of like if you're in the Army Airborne or special forces in some other way and you have to take jump training,

you have to do that because that's part of your job and it's necessary to do

what those people do. But if you're just doing it for thrills, knowing that you probably,

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