I'd be with you on this one on purely theoretical grounds, but to me it comes down to the fact that these guys paid the bums 5-10 dollars and some alcohol. They were being exploited, and the effects of a "Bum Fighting" fad sweeping across the nation would be pretty ugly imho.
If the bums got $200,000, or a place to live, or something of value, I'd say let them do it, otherwise I see no value in letting the fights go on, and plenty of obvious potential downside. -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, September 26, 2002, 4:38:14 PM, you wrote: CA> What is your proposed solution? How is this different than Don King offering CA> an inner-city boxer $200k to get his head beat on for 10 rounds, risking CA> brain damage, and then Don King making $3M from the deal? Sure is a lot of CA> crack-rocks to sell to make that kind of coin, and with your logic, that CA> would be the fighter's only alternative given they've probably had to deal CA> with deadbeat fathers, drug addicted mothers, poverty, and gangs. We better CA> intervene with more laws and jail sentences - the problem should go away CA> then. CA> Same logic as the drug war - let's not question the demand at all, because CA> if we can rid ourselves of the suppliers everything will be merry. Tell me CA> if my analogies are off base, and I'll try to come up with a better one. CA> Adam. ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
