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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Resolute effectively admitted he couldn't comprehend the anti-fighting crowd being anything more than "I just don't like it" because his only justification for fighting is "I LIKE IT!" The fighting/checking thing is just a clumsy attempt at distraction.
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Not at all, actually. You will note that I haven't been calling out people like JiriHrdina, who roots his anti-fighting stance pretty much entirely in the questions of long-term medical issues, and is also aware enough to be willing to look at bodychecking the same way. Though I doubt even he is willing to go so far as to replicate the women's game in the men's - where separating a player from the puck is dependent on positioning rather than initiating contact.
But most people on the anti-fighting side hand wave the medical concerns. I really do mean it when I say for people like Calgaryblood and UCB, I believe the need to come off as morally superior on the issue of fighting is the driving factor. And that is why people like UCB are utterly inconsistent in their views of other aspects of hockey that cause CTE and other issues. That is why we see people twisting themselves into pretzels trying to argue the necessity of bodychecking. They like it, they want it, and they don't want to admit that the anti-fighting arguments apply just as much to it.