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Originally Posted by MRM
While it is true that Pacman is a brutal thug who should live the rest of his life in jail and he is black, one has nothing to do with the other.
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I want to run with this one a bit...
I think that what we're seeing is that people who are brutal thugs inherently, are finding that they can use something like high school/college/NFL football as a way to get rich and famous by being the brutal brainless thug that they would be anyways. The other option is joining a gang. It's not a black/white thing, it's a society supporting the drafting of these maniacs for their Sunday afternoon entertainment.
There have been numerous movies/shows about future game shows being based around extremely violent sports (Deathrace 2000, Rollerball, Running Man)...the concept that society will become some messed up that watching people nearly murder each other is now good family entertainment...
Hmmm...seems like we reached that point. What's popular now? Football players that can destroy a club and kill people, rappers that get in shootouts, and MMA fighting where blood flows freely, and the brutality is glorified. Even our baseball players are monsters now.
Yup...our society has actually reached that point that we joked about/feared in early visions of a rotten future...