Acceptable Viloence?

                                    Acceptable Violence?

Greco-Roman Wrestling was contested in the first Olympic Games in 1896, and has remained in every summer Olympics held since 1908

We’re drawn to violence like a crowd around a brawl in the schoolyard, like the million dollar age old entertainment industries of boxing, wrestling, martial arts and more, the excitement or blood lust for the sport of war is not determined by age or gender. We get a rush of adrenalin which feels quite exhilarating and can be thought of as living vicariously through the thrill of the actions of others, our own well being is not threatened as we sit back at a safe distance and observe the carnage as a spectator.

This is a part of our animalistic human nature and has been for a long time, with centuries of developing fighting styles and tournaments to put them to the test there have always been those who partake and those who come for miles to crowd around the bodies to get a good peek. People would record and sell this information of the details and outcomes of the fighting match as entertainment, as another means of revenue for profit once the game was over. Today we call it the sports report on the daily News.

A bit like telling the triumphs of a sporting hero, but this man was no hero! He did not follow any conventions or accepted forms of violence in our society and while we deem it acceptable in many ways such as football and slaughter houses for our McDonald’s burgers when it comes to this man’s actions most people would be horrified.

Therein lays the line of distinction that the media should have made, this was not a situation of consenting adults who chose to be in this situation, this man just let rip on an unsuspecting public. It devastated many and should have been regarded with tact and sensitivity not a blatant sensationalised, hyped-up, dramatic and often irrelevant gruesome telling and re-telling of the facts and depiction of the person at the center of the catastrophe as having some quality worth tuning in to the news to hear all about.

Check out this link I think it’s an interesting extenuation of this topic;
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/07/19/violence.attraction.behavior/index.html