Lindy, you sure can get on a roll. It sounds like all the "you"s were just a general scolding of humanity in general, so I don't feel personally scolded...only generically.

I was expressing what really is just a utopian vision. The basic contradiction is that it first presupposes a global institution with the integrity and moral authority to honestly oversee this gladiatorial combat, and if we were already that enlightened, barbaric games would be that less necessary. Nothing like that exists today, and primate nature and rampant tribalism make it unlikely any time in the next evolutionary epoch. We yam what we yam, and that's all that we yam, spake Popeye.

--Robert