[briandear]

Swimming is ritualized warfare? That argument sounds like something one might come up with if they had a freshman philosophy paper due the next day. We could say that grocery shopping is ritualized hunting or that a piñata is an encouragement of ritualized torture. There comes a point when the intellectual threads holding together an argument approach absurdity.

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I didn't invent the idea of sports as ritualized warfare:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/olympics/a/OlympicGames.h...

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We could say that grocery shopping is ritualized hunting ...

It is 'gathering' the other main component of 'hunting and gathering'.

... or that a piñata is an encouragement of ritualized torture.

It may amuse you to know that I did actually look into that. However, the piñata's origins seem relatively innocuous.