04-29-2021, 06:35 AM
(04-29-2021, 05:44 AM)Baggers link Wrote:Woah, there Pauly. A love of your footy club, plus passion plus massive disappointment sees the best of us hit the keyboard... but that's the only hitting we do. The passionate among us are prone to wearing our hearts on our sleeves... but it's a massive leap from there to spousal abuse, verbal or physical.
The connection between loving someone / something and lashing out, and using the former as an excuse for the latter, puts you on a very slippery slope IMO.
Caring, in all its manifestations, is a process of delineation, a process of separating what is acceptable from what is not. Not caring is the precisely the absence of delineation (everything is ok, nothing is unacceptable / off limits). With football, you can (subjectively IMO) identify acceptable or unacceptable levels of effort, skill etc. and that's fine. But unchecked emotions that spill over tend to cause more problems than they solve IMO.
If you read the article I linked, Teague makes it clear that he is not a fan of "make a statement" selection manoeuvres, and I applaud him.