Muay Thai/Boxing/Kickboxing Question

[Dazed and Confused]

Sorry to bump my own thread, but on a different thread Sohan has encapsulated one of the issues I was driving at. Oddly this is from a discussion about economics, but it neatly articulates what I have been trying to say as only Sohan can!

It's a bit like traditional karate training. Will I become the most deadly fighter with this system as compared to perhaps another system? Maybe, maybe not. But I should hardly consider the time I have spent a waste. I have derived benefits of agility, strength, balance, and a calm awareness that I might not have gotten from another combat system. I also have made lifelong friends who share the philosophy of non-aggression and peace, which I can hardly say is the way of the modern combat athlete