While reading today I ran across this quote I felt apropos:
"Where war is forbidden, sport becomes the substitute, wherein a man's conduct determines his worth, and a silver trophy represents a battle won." - India, circa 1910's
It would seem that we humans need a means to release our instinctual mandate from nature, to engage in conflicts. Much as I have posted lately as to the change from warrior state in the feudal era to the more modern "way of the warrior" this speaks to the shift that will allow and accept the brutality of mankind into our modern times.
War is not necessarily forbidden but as to violence in society it has been judged illegal thus making our sporting disciplines more important. The only discerned difference are certain rules governing the "game" and the lack of death the other.
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