Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred jealousy boastfulness disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words it is war minus the shooting.
War is evil but it is often the lesser evil.
What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There...
My father was against the death penalty and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
