[lit-ideas] Re: when Man City needs an alternative to a Faroe Islands goalie

  • From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:40:09 -0700


On Apr 28, 2010, at 12:32 PM, Eric Yost wrote:

What cogitate ye of the whimsy that soccer augurs a simple agrarian society, whereas baseball and cricket betoken a society of specialists, and e'en that those frolics yclept football and rugby bode a brutal technocracy?

Of this there is not a dial o light in my mind. Me for chess. Pure responsibility where there is no "team" in "I."

All true.  Try this argument:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/8649138.stm

He couldn't have intended the foul because the player he hurt was able to continue the game. Ergo, if he'd intended to hurt him...he'd've finished the job.

David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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