We can't just say "the purpose of martial art is to fight", it is like saying that the purpose of dancing is to move around, or that the purpose of painting is to put paint onto a canvas, or that the purpose of cuisine is to make food. You can say that it's true, that it's tautological, that it's trivially true, and that it's dead wrong... and you'd be right whichever you say.
If your martial art isn't teaching you to fight, it's not martial, and for that reason, it's a load of bull cause it's pretending to be something that it's not. A martial art has to be "martial", or it's not a martial art.
But it doesn't end there: the purposes of martial arts are many, just like the purposes of cuisine are many: "people train in cuisine in order to provide for the well-being of your loved ones, to make a living from it, for health, to preserve an ancient culture, for personal enjoyment, to refine skill through competition, to share enjoyment with others, to impress women, and so on." And all those apply for martial art as well.
Martial art has its own particular benefits: overcoming fear or anxiety to cultivate character and personal maturity. Because it involves intense physical activity, it obviously has all of the same benefits of exercise: developing strength, flexibility, agility, reflexes, endurance, and so on and so on.
It doesn't have a purpose other than the self-evident, "by-definition" answer: "to train people how to fight". People have purposes for CREATING, DOING, or TEACHING martial arts.
today it covers a broad range of thing, but mainly people use it to better themselves to improve, their body mind and spirit in one form or another. whether the study for self defense to stay in shape, self discipline, cultural heritage, self control, for health, exercise or sports. it all boils down to improving yourself.
Martial art alone is not sentient
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