10-15-2009, 02:05 PM
Evan Wrote:Steve85 Wrote:Football player has a choice and is aware of the dangers.
Dog is trained, brainwashed, forced to do it.
we have a winner.
Of course, its par for the course in a magazine whose readership masturbates to stories that make them feel superior to the unwashed masses.
(never mind the complete logical fallacy of equivalizing the 2)
Oh Evan, I was waiting for you. Malcolm Gladwell loves sports and is actually quite sports saavy as witnessed by his exchange with ESPN's Bill Simmons.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sto...0513/part1
The "football player has a choice" theory is so obvious and so instinctual that most folks believe it without questioning it. Just throwing that out there.
Second, your comment about the new yorker is brilliant. It attacks the magazine, the readers and makes wholesale assumptions that you believe to be so obvious that it has to be true. You should read some of his books Evan. It's all about the perception of choice, our decision making process and the fallacy of commonly held assumptions.
Two feet.