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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6195256" data-attributes="member: 4937">There is an even bigger problem.&nbsp; In a world where someone can be trained to be as deadly with their hands they would be with a sword and armor, would a sword and armor ever be invented in the first place?&nbsp;&nbsp; Why would anyone bother?&nbsp; It's not really a logically reconcilable problem.&nbsp; If it takes the same amount of training to produce a monk as a knight, then why bother going to the incredible overhead and expense of creating all the tools a knight needs to succeed?&nbsp;&nbsp; If on the other hand, it takes less training to produce a knight than a monk then it implies that monks are more experienced and hence higher level than knights.&nbsp;&nbsp; That only thing I could think to do is have not everyone can be trained to be monk because there is some special in fiction 'enlightened' trait that is a prerequisite - high midichlorian count or something - but while that works of arcane knights like the Jedi, for the literal usage of the term 'Monk' this undermines their color.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6195256, member: 4937"] There is an even bigger problem. In a world where someone can be trained to be as deadly with their hands they would be with a sword and armor, would a sword and armor ever be invented in the first place? Why would anyone bother? It's not really a logically reconcilable problem. If it takes the same amount of training to produce a monk as a knight, then why bother going to the incredible overhead and expense of creating all the tools a knight needs to succeed? If on the other hand, it takes less training to produce a knight than a monk then it implies that monks are more experienced and hence higher level than knights. That only thing I could think to do is have not everyone can be trained to be monk because there is some special in fiction 'enlightened' trait that is a prerequisite - high midichlorian count or something - but while that works of arcane knights like the Jedi, for the literal usage of the term 'Monk' this undermines their color. [/QUOTE]

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