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**Qrhzbadu** · 04-04-2006, 02:58 PM

I think that the answer to both of these statements is the same. I don't think anyone is ignoring the topic because of societal taboo. I also don't think responses have been "disappointingly low".
You are simply discussing a topic which affects a very small percentage of the world's population. There are a great many people that simply aren't interested in it as it doesn't affect them. This doesn't mean that it isn't a good topic, or that it shouldn't be discussed. It merely means that most people have no real interest in it.
I think you'd run into the same lack of interest in a post about the problems of sword practice for those with diabetes. The percentage of the population is fairly close.

We’ve got about 580 members at the NKR (Dutch Kendo Renmei), let’s say there are about a 100 Katori Shinto Ryu practitioners (a lot , I know but I’m not aware of any Niten Ichi Ryu or Yagyu Shinkage Ryu groups, so I had to guess) that makes 680. That’s 21 sword art practitioner with a mental illness (3%) in the Netherlands alone. There are 41 ZNKR dojo, I’m aware of 6 KSR dojo, so that’s a total 47 dojo. That’s almost 1 person per 2 dojo (0,43 persons per dojo, to be precise). That makes it a big issue even though there are only 21 swordsmen (women) with a mental illness. But I could be wrong...

04-04-2006, 02:58 PM	#31
Qrhzbadu Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 444 Senior Member	I think that the answer to both of these statements is the same. I don't think anyone is ignoring the topic because of societal taboo. I also don't think responses have been "disappointingly low". You are simply discussing a topic which affects a very small percentage of the world's population. There are a great many people that simply aren't interested in it as it doesn't affect them. This doesn't mean that it isn't a good topic, or that it shouldn't be discussed. It merely means that most people have no real interest in it. I think you'd run into the same lack of interest in a post about the problems of sword practice for those with diabetes. The percentage of the population is fairly close. We’ve got about 580 members at the NKR (Dutch Kendo Renmei), let’s say there are about a 100 Katori Shinto Ryu practitioners (a lot , I know but I’m not aware of any Niten Ichi Ryu or Yagyu Shinkage Ryu groups, so I had to guess) that makes 680. That’s 21 sword art practitioner with a mental illness (3%) in the Netherlands alone. There are 41 ZNKR dojo, I’m aware of 6 KSR dojo, so that’s a total 47 dojo. That’s almost 1 person per 2 dojo (0,43 persons per dojo, to be precise). That makes it a big issue even though there are only 21 swordsmen (women) with a mental illness. But I could be wrong...
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