I agree with you. Many people do knife training without thinking about what they are actually simulating. We do very little knife to knife training in JKDU, spending most knife work on defending empty handed against a knife. The knife to knife work is mainly sparring, not going in, doing a disarm, then pretending to slice and dice and unarmed opponent. The sparring makes it easier, because the other person is trying to get you. It is pretty gruesome, but as you said, if you are in that kind of danger, you have to use whatever force is necessary and justified to get home safely.
p.s. I don't carry a knife, but I did when I lived in a warzone.
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