Quote Originally Posted by Reverent-One View Post
Restraining someone without harming them is the same whether you grab the arm or neck.
This is untrue. Many martial arts restraints that have most of the work done on one body part operate on the principle that the only way to escape is to injure yourself. Injuries to the throat are obviously going to be more life threatening than injuries to the arm. The difference is that chickenwinging somebody is less obviously a display of power than holding them in the air with one hand. Incidentally, the latter, if you are holding them by the throat, will strangle them as their own weight pushes their throat against your hand, even if it doesn't crush their windpipe outright.


That was pretty much the most harmful way to restrain somebody, assuming you didn't start by injuring them.

It's mindboggling that you would argue that this isn't any more dangerous than any other method of restraint. It unequivocally is. Now, it is possible that the artist didn't intend to show this as dangerous and simply didn't know that it was, but that isn't what you are arguing right now.