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Oh, absolutely: personally I train for fun, I don't care about the self defence applications. The problem is when a style advertises itself as 'self-defence' and can't back it up, or worse, criticises other demonstrably effective styles for being 'sports'.
Happens a lot, which is why I automatically splurge something like the above in response.