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(07-28-2018 05:59 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  
(07-28-2018 04:05 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  he lights up every time he talks about it and explains the philosophy.

I have never heard the philosophy explained.

Maybe you could explain it for me?

I'm OK with smashmouth football. I am OK with controlled and selective aggression.
Football is a tough and physical sport. But I associate brutality with cruelty.

Your observation reminded me (as many things do) of a comment by Winston Churchill, on a topic that really was a matter of life and death, not just for individuals but for civilisation. In October 1939, reporting to the nation on the Royal Navy's efforts in the newly-declared war to hunt and kill German U-boats, he said that the Navy was
Quote: hunting them day and night -- I shall not say without mercy, because God forbid we should ever part company with that -- but at any rate with zeal, and not altogether without relish.

As an approach to war-making, I love this description. And though I have not heard a recording of it, I can certainly imagine Churchill giving eager emphasis to the operative nouns mercy, zeal, and (especially) relish.
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