Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Chechen leader has kids fight MMA on TV

2016-10-12 Thread Steve Timko 
Feodor Emelianko's daughter allegedly attacked because of his
criticism of the Chechen child MMA fights.
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2016/10/12/13256490/fedor-daughter-attacked-after-criticism-against-kadyrov-child-mma-news

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Steve Timko  wrote:
> To correct my earlier post, it was a 12-year-old who got knocked out.
> If any of these kids had beaten one fo the sons of the rulers, I
> wonder what would have happened to them.
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Kevin M.  wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 1:13 PM,  wrote:
>>>
>>> I would think the local legal age of majority would be a good place to
>>> start...maybe adjusted down a year or two, depending on their participation
>>> rules for contact sports.
>>>
>>> But I'm gonna go out on a limb and say 10 is a little too young.
>>>
>>>
>> I agree 10 is too young, but MMA has been a huge success in that part of the
>> world long before it became popular in the so-called Western World. A lot of
>> kids there see fighting as a way out of their life the way urban kids here
>> view sports as a way out of their life. I'm in no way defending or condoning
>> it, but it is a foreign culture with different perspectives, and at the risk
>> of sounding like the Prime Directive from Star Trek, it might not be fair to
>> ascribe our cultural norms to theirs.
>>
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Chechen leader has kids fight MMA on TV

2016-10-06 Thread Steve Timko 
To correct my earlier post, it was a 12-year-old who got knocked out.
If any of these kids had beaten one fo the sons of the rulers, I
wonder what would have happened to them.

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Kevin M.  wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 1:13 PM,  wrote:
>>
>> I would think the local legal age of majority would be a good place to
>> start...maybe adjusted down a year or two, depending on their participation
>> rules for contact sports.
>>
>> But I'm gonna go out on a limb and say 10 is a little too young.
>>
>>
> I agree 10 is too young, but MMA has been a huge success in that part of the
> world long before it became popular in the so-called Western World. A lot of
> kids there see fighting as a way out of their life the way urban kids here
> view sports as a way out of their life. I'm in no way defending or condoning
> it, but it is a foreign culture with different perspectives, and at the risk
> of sounding like the Prime Directive from Star Trek, it might not be fair to
> ascribe our cultural norms to theirs.
>
>
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Chechen leader has kids fight MMA on TV

2016-10-06 Thread Kevin M. 
On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 1:13 PM,  wrote:

> I would think the local legal age of majority would be a good place to
> start...maybe adjusted down a year or two, depending on their participation
> rules for contact sports.
>
> But I'm gonna go out on a limb and say 10 is a little too young.
>
>
> I agree 10 is too young, but MMA has been a huge success in that part of
the world long before it became popular in the so-called Western World. A
lot of kids there see fighting as a way out of their life the way urban
kids here view sports as a way out of their life. I'm in no way defending
or condoning it, but it is a foreign culture with different perspectives,
and at the risk of sounding like the Prime Directive from Star Trek, it
might not be fair to ascribe our cultural norms to theirs.


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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Chechen leader has kids fight MMA on TV

2016-10-06 Thread doug 


I would think the local legal age of majority would be a good place to 
start...maybe adjusted down a year or two, depending on their participation 
rules for contact sports.


But I'm gonna go out on a limb and say 10 is a little too young.


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On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 4:04 PM -0400, "Kevin M."  
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I suppose the argument could be raised that there is no appropriate age where 
two people beat the sh*t out of each other on TV, but I guess that's just crazy 
talk. 

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Bob Jersey  wrote:

Steve Timko wrote:10-year-old gets knocked out.
Russian MMA hero criticizes act.
Chechen leader criticised over televised children's MMA fights


The guy once did his own nation's version of "The Apprentice."  The Trump 
attitude obviously rubbed off on him.

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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Chechen leader has kids fight MMA on TV

2016-10-06 Thread Kevin M. 
I suppose the argument could be raised that there is no appropriate age
where two people beat the sh*t out of each other on TV, but I guess that's
just crazy talk.

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Bob Jersey  wrote:

>
> Steve Timko wrote:
>>
>> 10-year-old gets knocked out.
>> Russian MMA hero criticizes act.
>> Chechen leader criticised over televised children's MMA fights
>>
>> The guy once did his own nation's version of "The Apprentice."  The Trump
> attitude obviously rubbed off on him.
>
> B
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[TV orNotTV] Re: Chechen leader has kids fight MMA on TV

2016-10-06 Thread Bob Jersey 

Steve Timko wrote:
>
> 10-year-old gets knocked out.
> Russian MMA hero criticizes act.
> Chechen leader criticised over televised children's MMA fights
>
> The guy once did his own nation's version of "The Apprentice."  The Trump 
attitude obviously rubbed off on him.

B

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