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Originally posted by Briles1207
Are we doomed as a species? The current level of barbarianism in the world astounds me.
It almost feels that some parts of world are actually de-evolving.
It Is one manic killing after another, there is something in the water....
Also, does anyone know the symbolic nature of beheading someone? What is the fascination in some cultures?
asia.eurospo rt.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
Originally posted by ItCameFromOuterSpace
reply to post by Briles1207kg
Say what you will about how crappy the U.S. is and blah blah blah. But at least this never happens at our sporting events. Some parts of the world will always be primitive.
Originally posted by seabag
Brazil seems like a reasonable place to hold the 2016 Olympic Games.
Originally posted by seabag
Apparently the value of life just took another dip. I'll never understand how people can get so twisted over a recreational activity.
Originally posted by Astrocyte
This seems to be regional rather than something endemic to our current human population. South Americans take soccer (or football) WAYYYYYY TOOOOOOO SERRIIOOUSSSLLLYYY. There's a fundamental difference in temperament between North Americans and Western Europeans (to a lesser degree) and south americans, arabs, turks, etc.
This may be economically related, since a poorer society is a less educated society which thus increases the odds of this degree of barbarism.
The world IS getting better, Steven Pinker proved that in his "the better angels of our nature". Unfortunately, it's not a night and day process. It'll take decades, maybe a century or more, before the world reaches a period where acts such as these become ancient history.
Originally posted by Briles1207
Are we doomed as a species? The current level of barbarianism in the world astounds me.
It almost feels that some parts of world are actually de-evolving.
It Is one manic killing after another, there is something in the water....
Also, does anyone know the symbolic nature of beheading someone? What is the fascination in some cultures?
asia.eurospo rt.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
Originally posted by stumason
reply to post by Skywatcher2011
In rural Brazil? I doubt it - there are only around 30,000 Muslims in all of Brazil....
Football is different in these other parts of the world. It keeps them from doing trouble, usually.
I'm not condoning what they did. It was wrong. I'm just saying, I can understand the thought process behind it, and it isn't quite as barbaric as people are making it out to be.
According to reports, the referee was tied up, beaten, stoned and quartered. They then put his head on a stake and planted it in the middle of the pitch)
Originally posted by ItCameFromOuterSpace
reply to post by Briles1207kg
Say what you will about how crappy the U.S. is and blah blah blah. But at least this never happens at our sporting events. Some parts of the world will always be primitive.