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Originally Posted by Split98
Why not? You're saying Player X did this, so it's not effective. I'm offering a counter that shows that anomalies exist in other situations -- and they don't prove a policy to be ineffective because they exist.
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Anomalies don't prove the ineffectiveness of a policy because of the overwhelming evidence that shows otherwise. Besides the point, there is actually a positive argument to be made for removing firearms from police officers altogether, but this is not the place to make that case.
In this instance, cheap shots and dirty plays in hockey are not analogous to the supposed anomalies in your comparative example because there is no good reason to think that their occurrence would increase in the absence of fighting. Just as there is no evidence to show that there has a reduction in such play with an increase of fighting.
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Originally Posted by Split98
Sure, but you could also argue that they are very much different leagues. European leagues don't even play on the same sized ice. When we watched the Olympics, I noticed NA players playing far less aggressively playing in a far less confined space.
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There is no fighting in college hockey which is played on NHL-sized ice.
All games in the 2010 Winter Olympics were played on NHL-sized ice.