Benquo comments on The Two-Party Swindle - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Benquo 03 January 2008 12:38:55AM 0 points [-]

Caledonian, why do you feel the need to assume bad faith? Perhaps I, not seeing how a literal reading of "there would be no football" made sense, interpreted it as accidental exaggeration. There are more civil ways to express your incredulity, as Mr. Knecht's comment demonstrated.

Mr. Knecht, I concede your point RE: tennis.

Steven might be on the right track. Perhaps football's current non-tribalist support would be sufficient to sustain it, but would a non-tribal humanity have invented football in the first place?