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Originally Posted by Magus
Actually, yes, the high point of any UFC viewing for me is when one guy has been knocked senseless to the ground and the other guy is beating the ever loving shit out of his head, so I think your point is proven but I don't care? Or something like that. I forget, I think it was Bluestarultor who said something about "let's throw some lions in there", which I'm assuming is a comparison between the UFC and the ancient gladiatorial games. What this overlooks is that these people are willingly entering UFC matches, unlike the slaves used for the spectacles of Rome, so while the visceral enjoyment may be as "mindless", it's not as immoral (or something like that).
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My point was actually less about gladiatorial battles dealing with slavery and more that it was similarly bloody and with the way they whore stuff out for ratings, if they thought they could get away with it, they probably would. Which is why I tried to clarify it with my edit mentioning that it was a bad idea because the lions, unlike the fighters, wouldn't have a choice in the matter and ended with a final quip about animals having poor contracts.
I know the fighters know what they're getting into. I just tried to dress it up with implications of animal abuse as a tongue-in-cheek denial of expectation concerning the bloodbath. Not that I was expecting people to pick up on my humor (i.e. the things that weren't said), but I was kind of banking on someone asking about it and that just didn't happen.