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Originally Posted by Textcritic
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.
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.
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Fair enough
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Originally Posted by dobbles
Wait, so a comparison to European leagues isn't valid because they are too different from the NHL, but you somehow think your gun analogy is valid? C'mon man, that's pretty far fetched.
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I said "Sure, but you could also argue that they are very much different leagues". I never said 'look at my gun analogy. Your European league analogy is not valid'.
Makes it pretty difficult to have a conversation here when you offer literally nothing constructive.
Are you offering anything to my thoughts or are you just going to loosely pick apart my argument and infer words like 'European leagues isn't valid' where you see fit to try and make me look stupid?