Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Team sports are a moral equivalent of War

People around the world, growing cautious of war and fearful of its consequnces, have turned increasingly to its moral equivalent in team sports. Their thirst for group membership and superiority of their group can be satisfied with victory by their warriors in clashes on ritualized battlefields.

(Edward O. Wilson, The social conquest of Earth)

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