http://dmiessler.com/blog/why-i-like-nhb-fight-competition grepping intervals Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:31:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://dmiessler.com/blog/why-i-like-nhb-fight-competition/comment-page-1#comment-1246 Carl M Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:20:30 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/467#comment-1246 <p>Well ... to be fair ... I consciously avoided using any biased words like "barbarism" in my original question. I respected you enough to assume that you saw something of value in the sport. But you were right about how I view such violence ... and it is in fact difficult for me to call it a sport. But, though I do not think I could ever enjoy it (I'm not sure I could get past my gut response to the violence ... and my time is filled with other things anyway so I see no real reason to acquire a taste for it), I appreciate your answer and I can understand now what others enjoy in it.</p> Well … to be fair … I consciously avoided using any biased words like “barbarism” in my original question. I respected you enough to assume that you saw something of value in the sport. But you were right about how I view such violence … and it is in fact difficult for me to call it a sport. But, though I do not think I could ever enjoy it (I’m not sure I could get past my gut response to the violence … and my time is filled with other things anyway so I see no real reason to acquire a taste for it), I appreciate your answer and I can understand now what others enjoy in it.

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