For fun.... I'll paraphrase your comment as though I was a Coliseum spectator.
I won't need to change the context, just the descriptive words....From where I am standing, I can HEAR the Coliseum spectators saying these EXACT words to justify HIS spectating.......
I suspect you wouldn't accept HIS words as defending the practice of running Gladiatorial combat....
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Well to start with the fans are not there to see death, or have any role in whether a gladiator lives or dies. They are there to see some of the best fighting [like your boxing] on the planet. They have no say in the outcome of a gladiator [only the Emperor had that], and certainly do not wish for accidents to happen.
The reason I watch it is because I have a love of martial arts, there is a lot of history to the Coliseum [ooohhhh errrr, not kidding.... about SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS of continuous use..... that 'beats' the IoM TT into a cocked HAT] and it goes beyond just being a simple fight. To watch what the guys achieve with simple hand-weaponry there, is nothing short of amazing. I know the risks they are taking, even more so do the gladiators competing. I do not want to see gladiators lose lives, and I am sure that is the case for all fans of the Coliseum. I want to see close combat [!!], close finishes and fight time being extended each year in one of the best arenas [arenae.... is the correct plural....] going. That is what the Coliseum guarnatees every year. It is unfortunate that lives are lost, but if everyone went through life worrying about death then living would be particularly boring!
If you don't like it, don't watch it. I have heard people die in the Greek Theatres as well... oh the blood craving loonatics that go to see stuff.... [you should have read SOME of the Greek trajedies if you want to see bloodd-thirsty stuff]!!! :)
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It fits STAGGERINGLY well...... especially the bit that reads..... 'if you don't like it, don't watch it'....
.... so....
....can I use that comment to promote the RETURN of Gladiators.... or bull fighting, bear-baiting, Dog-Fights...? Because.... if you don't like those..... don't watch them, either!
No?.....
I thought not.....
Ian
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