Doc,Nov 22 2004, 08:29 PM Wrote:It's not that I like violence in sports. I dislike pussification in anything.
People should take their lumps, in what ever form they come. Parents should not hover over their children, preventing every little bump and thump. And grown people should not have others hovering over them doing much the same. Games like football should be violent. Physics dictate it to be so. These behemoths slamming into one another should be a smash fest. And sports, ALL sports, should have defining moments proving that you are right, or that you kick ass, or that you win in the only way it matters. Settle it like men. Or women. If a fight breaks out, call out an official and make sure both are willing, then let them settle each other's hash.
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Yes, football and other sports cause will cause bangups, I don't think anyone's arguing with that. Fighting doesn't show people have skills though, it just shows they get mad easily. If someone like me watches sports, it's to see who is stronger or a better thrower, or sometime's in football's case who makes the better tackles, not who has the most trouble letting some little thing go.
As you said, it's a culture thing about sports, I go to see skills, I don't know what you go to see.
As for the talking about other parts of life, I have my own opinions depending on the actual situation. I do think that in general people should at least have information or be able to get it about what they can do about tough situations and have at least some help with them, as long as they earn to handle the different things.
And because every thread must turn into an Iraq one, <_< I think Iraq is a very violent place right now.
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The gloves come off, I'm playing hardball. It's fourth and 15 and you're looking at a full-court press. (Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun)
Some people in forums do the next best thing to listening to themselves talk, writing and reading what they write (source, my brother)