Roman gladiator cemetery found

[mortar_guy78]

Rangers, I'm just testing the waters a bit here, would any of you support bringing regulated, televised, volunteer, gladiatorial death matches back ? I would.

Why not? They've done every f-ing thing else on reality tv.

Anyway, no I would not. Why the hell would I want to watch people get killed on TV? I don't want to watch 90% of what is on TV in the first place.

[RangerX]

There are those that consider the gladiator fights to be a symbol of the downfall of Rome. While society was collapsing around them, the citizens were happily distracted with things like gladiator fights, Christians being fed to lions, etc. Some might draw parallels with things today. Taking it to the next level would only further this viewpoint.

Less distractions, more reality. And reality TV has NOTHING to do with reality.

[mortar_guy78]

And reality TV has NOTHING to do with reality.

No kidding. I hate "reality TV". Sorry, I just don't get the fascination with proving that the average civilian is a lying, conniving, buddy-fucking douche-canoe over and over again.

[RangerX]

douche-canoe

Stealing that.

[mortar_guy78]

Douche-canoe is a personal favorite. I try not to over use it though. I keep it in reserve for when I really want to emphasize the quality of douchiness.

[ambracia]

There are those that consider the gladiator fights to be a symbol of the downfall of Rome. While society was collapsing around them, the citizens were happily distracted with things like gladiator fights, Christians being fed to lions, etc. Some might draw parallels with things today. Taking it to the next level would only further this viewpoint.

Less distractions, more reality. And reality TV has NOTHING to do with reality.

Ranger RangerX, I disagree completely. First of all despite all the media fanfare I honestly believe this country is still well on its rise before the fall. On the issue of gladitorial matches themselves hollywood history dramatically over plays the importance of gladitorial battles on roman culture. For instance the Coliseum had seating for 55,000 in a city of 1 million people, not insignificant but when compared to the Circus Maximus (A stadium built for Chariot Racing) which had seating for 250,000 people, a quarter of the entire cities population, it's unfair to label the roman people as a stupid, brutish, mob with little interest in anything but violence. There certainly were quite a few but the majority of the Roman people probably lacked the stomach for it.

As for legalizing them today, the way I think about it is that as long as it was all volunteer and emergency medical staff were on standby, why not let them choose to do it, and why not let me watch it in HD ? We could even make people on deathrow fight to the death, televise it and make all that expensive trial money back in advertising revenue.

[IntelToad]

Regarding Ranger Hobbit's post, thank you brother for the bit of history regarding the whole thumbs up/thumbs down thing.

I never knew that so I will adjust my prior response to-



ambracia, I'll take your posts with a grain of salt and blame it on youthful exuberance. Two pieces of advice-

Number one, we are not a nation of savages that takes delight in the death of others hacking each other to pieces on television. The closest we can come to this is the NHL and it is strictly regulated. If your ideal is to become a Ranger, and represent this country, I would hope that your view of the world with evolve just a bit. Your goal is to become a sheepdog, a protector of the flock, not a predator that kills for fun and enjoys watching gay midget snuff porn.

Number two, your 2 mile time sucks and I recommend an alternate activity to posting so much on this site- namely running.

[ambracia]

ambracia, I'll take your posts with a grain of salt and blame it on youthful exuberance. Two pieces of advice-

Number one, we are not a nation of savages that takes delight in the death of others hacking each other to pieces on television. The closest we can come to this is the NHL and it is strictly regulated. If your ideal is to become a Ranger, and represent this country, I would hope that your view of the world with evolve just a bit. Your goal is to become a sheepdog, a protector of the flock, not a predator that kills for fun and enjoys watching gay midget snuff porn.

Number two, your 2 mile time sucks and I recommend an alternate activity to posting so much on this site- namely running.

Ranger IntelToad, All good points, I'll get to work on both of those.