[dionidium]

Humans think its hilarious good time to fight and kill each other over multinational corporations "owning" teams of grown men playing childrens ball games...

This is obviously tangential to your point, but it doesn't make you sound smarter or more evolved when you talk this way about sports. This sort of stuff is just tiring. As a software developer in one of the cities that sent a team to the World Series this year, I assure you I've heard every "sportsball" joke a dozen times and each time delivered as though the person saying it thinks they're the first person to realize some cultural blind-spot.

It doesn't advance your point, in other words.

[gliese1337]

In general, I agree, but I think it does serve a valid rhetorical point in this case- i.e., that is the way in which we are likely to view a lot of the weird, different, unexpected practices of an alien culture. And yet, there will be people who embrace those things in all seriousness.