(January 21, 2015 at 9:47 am)Brian37 Wrote: Does not matter why they happen. Still childish. It isn't a boxing match.I agree, but that's an attitude that is only very slowly being removed from sports in general, at least here in the USA. There is still a lot of admiration for people who are successful because they are such sore losers, and there is still admiration for people who will "do anything to win," even if that involves bending or breaking the rules.
Contact sports should not involve being a fucking prick.
But it is being removed. At least in part due to a growing understanding of how brain injuries can make for shorter and more miserable lives, sports are working to rein in behavior that used to be celebrated. Fights in hockey are much less common than they used to be, and more and more teams are no longer keeping players whose only contribution to a game is to pummel other players.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
