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While this argument makes sense on paper, it completely nullifies the point. **Both** should be taught for the following reasons:
1) You can educate people all you want, but that will not stop the people who simply never gave a flying fuck.
2) Okay, now you're back to square one, there are evil men out there that don't give a fuck about anyone and **WILL** abuse you given the opportunity. *Thank god* they received a talk about how you shouldn't hurt women when they were in 6th grade.
3) You are now still in a situation where you have to respond to violence, but since self-defence wasn't taught to you, you have to be a helpless victim of said violence.
"It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war."