israeli shootings and soccer hooligans

now the israeli's are in such a hurry to kill palestinians that they are mistakenly killing themselves.

i went to a "friendly" soccer match yesterday between the colorado rapids and santos, and the friendly part of it got thrown out very early on. there were 5 yellow cards in the first half, and could have been another 5, plus 3 santos players could have been ejected for pushing the referee after the first rapids goal. things only got uglier in the second half, with a fan getting ejected for throwing a full beer bottle onto the field from close to the club level seating(which thanks to craig i was sitting in). it actually was quite a throw, but what an ass. play stopped for 5 minutes while they tracked him down and ejected him. he tried to say that it came from behind him, but the only people behind him were the club class people, and they were all 7 or 8 rows behind with an overhand above them that would have prevented them from getting the arc required to reach the field. even the latino dominated crowd was chanting for him to get kicked out. as a result of the bad blood and the beer bottle, the ref called the game at 90:13, even though there had certainly been 8 or 9 minutes of stopage time.

anyhow, it was pointed out to me that i have a very strong sense of obeying the rules when it comes to sports(and probably lots of other things), which seems strange to me considering that i believe that i'm a libertarian. i think it comes from playing games at family reunions, where to solve the problem of everyone having their own house rules for games like monopoly, we went by the strict rules printed in the box of the games. so you didn't get money for landing on free parking, you had to pay 10% when you unmortgaged properties, and you had to decide if you were going to pay 15% or $200 before you calculated how much 15% was going to be when you landed on income tax. i think my thoughts when it comes to rules in games are that you choose to obey the rules when you choose to play and when you violate the rules you have destroyed the game. where in society, while it's true that you have choosen to live within society(although what alternative do you really have?) you didn't get to choose the rules, they were developed and set up long before you were born, and there is plenty of debate about whether the rules really are neccessary for society to continue to function. just as in monopoly you can have a game where you have different rules, i think that society could be played by different rules, and as a person i strive to change the rules of our society to fit what i believe. the biggest difference is that players who cheat don't want the rules changed, they just want the rules changed for them, not for everybody.

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