I will give my now standard answer to claims of the paranormal. Most humans would like to be wealthy, if not wealthy and famous. Even if you are a philathropic sort of person, you'd like to have money just to give away to your causes. There is no debating this assertion--I'd say 99% of humans on Earth would rather have $10 million dollars than not have $10 million dollars.
The average purse for a heavyweight title fight is somewhere in the vicinity of $10 million. So if you could knock someone out with you ki/chi/the force/magic /etc., you'd go fight the heavyweight champion of the world and knock him out and be $10 million richer. End of story. No practioner of dim mak is actually able to beat a top notch heavyweight boxer, therefore they make their money peddling charlatanism to the guillable. If not heavyweight boxing, whatever, pick your contact sport. If you could go around pressing a "button" on people and knocking them out and/or killing them, you would be rolling in money.
The non-violent claims of chi are subject to this same line of reasoning. If you could heal people with your magical powers, you'd be curing cancer, AIDS, SARS, Parkinson's, diabetes, etc. You could obviously put doctors out of business quickly. And people would rather someone waive their hands over their afflicted body then get poked, prodded, cut, medicated, etc. Since no practioner of magical healing arts has come close to the efficacy of Western medicine (which isn't all that effective to begin with, but that's for another rant....), we can safely conclude no one has these powers. Instead these charlatans also prey upon the ignorant and guilable.
Humans always want to be compensated for their talents, and hopefully, make a nice living off of something they have invested a great deal of time and study in. Its absurd to claim that someone would go out of their way to avoid the millions of dollars that would come their way if they could actually do the sorts of things that people claim they can do.
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