[quote]Alpha F wrote:
dollarbill44 wrote:
You make some decent points about the impact of words and how often times they can be more destructive than physical violence. You miss the fact that you cannot kill a person with words, but you certainly can kill with physical violence. Therein lies the distinction between the two, which is why one form is illegal and the other is not (in the U.S. anyway).
If someone verbally “tears you a new asshole” it will hurt a helluva lot less than if someone literally rips open a new orifice in your buttocks. Likewise with “ripping one’s head off”.
Anyone can resort to physical violence, but it takes a true artist to demoralize a person with words.
DB
Good point.
I wholeheartedly agree with you.
That is why I said it is more real and if the severity is mild and afar from incurring death, a physical display of agression is more acceptable as evidence of being a real man.
However, from a different perspective, according to the adverse judgement of most, Zidane’s career has been killed by his course of action - and he is going to have to live with that for the rest of his days, like a living death, if you like.
What was the blow that caused that death?
Doesn’t the law of physics teach that to every action there is a reaction of equal force?
Of course, at the end of the day there is always free will and he could have made 100 diferent choices.
My main point is that he made a not very popular one.
I am not advocating violence - Please keep it in context; He was taking part in a sports activity. When you are in action, staff happens - if he tried to kill the guy he would have been stopped - when I played in high school I always was, ; )
… and my attitude was “well,honey, if you can’t take the solidity of my body then you don’t belong here - Go become a cheer leader.”
If Salami (Metarazzi, or whatever his name is)came home after that game and I was his mother I would have headbutted him myself, ; )
My rage over this whole affair actually is this:
In the name of sports, please remove the spineless cockcroaches from the game. Bloodless creatures made of soft shells that pose no significant threat but who none the less spoil any game are pests and do not bleed well, or cannot bleed altogether so why play them?
“Referreeeee…he squashed my chest!”
Insects.
My gay friend said that the italians were like “crying little girls who couldn’t take a hit” - If that doesn’t say something about the lack of blood in these creatures then I don’t know what does.
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Very true words. Personally,I feel this whole episode has been blown WAY out of proportion. Suddenly people have forgotten that Zidane has always been a “chippy” player (to borrow a hockey term) and prone to these types of actions. The only reason I’m surprised at his actions were because of the magnitude of the game.
DB
