1. As with the social system as a whole, the game has a life of its own.
A. The result is a group of people who, as the leagues become of a higher and higher class, are progressively insensitive to the possibility that things could be otherwise.
B. Everyone grows up inside it, accepts it and fulfills its dictates as obediently as Helots.
C. Thus, in football, anyone who might question the wisdom or enjoyment of putting on heavy equipment on a hot day, would be regarded as not really a devoted athlete and probably “chicken”.
D. Far from questioning the principles of the activity, most men simply concentrate on executing these principles more aggressively than anybody else.
6. The choice is made straightforward.