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Do people regularly mass murder each other over sports? Because that's the stakes we're talking about here in context. Brawling and screaming over a sport is m
by warent 4y ago
Do people regularly mass murder each other over sports? Because that's the stakes we're talking about here in context.
Brawling and screaming over a sport is much preferred to bombing and poisoning.
- widdershins 4y agoNo (though it does happen, see Constantinople's chariot teams). But expansionist and militaristic societies are often obsessed with sport, for example imperial Britain, Germany at the 1936 Olympics, and arguably the modern US.
- rhizome31 4y agoNot to mention Ancient Greece. Sport as a substitute for war is a joke.
- anigbrowl 4y agoBoth sports and war leverage the same dynamics, just as individual athleticism improves one's chances in a fight. Neither are ends in themselves.