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I want to show how the Lineal can exist while being implicit and not explicit. This will answer the question: "Why aren't people screaming from the rooftops regarding the Lineal if it exists?
Contracts are often implicit. No contract can exist with no "consideration", something of value to exchange for the goods and/or ,services offered in a contract. You do not sign a contract when a plumber comes over... It is "Implicit" understood that you will pay a fee for your pipes being fixed. Nobody has to make it explicit right?
Cus Amato allegedlly told Mike Tyson that "A Boxing Ring is the only place homicide is legal." As citizens of America, with inalienable rights, we cannot simply construct a magical boxing ring and declare homicide legal... Just as we do not have to make explicit our rights when we exorscize them, an actual boxing match has obligations that go along with the right to suspend what would otherwise be a capitol offense against another citizen. Again, imagine you have an argument with a neighbor and both of you decide to construct a ring and claim you were "boxing" if anyone dies... How far would that get you in a court of law?
Boxing comes from Duels and THIS IS KEY to understanding the lineal: Duels had implicit rules to be followed. Nobody had to tell participants, you cannot ambush your opponent the night before the duel, you cannot show emotional outbursts, you cannot dress like a tramp, you cannot use a weapon that gives you an unfair advantage... etc, etc. Nobody would claim that these rules did not exist because they were not stated! On the contrary, the rules that were stated were just an adjunct, made to ultimately reinforce that which was implicit.
A duel was, a social contract. Citizens all enter into such a contract, which is alas, implicit as well. In return for the roads, policing power of government, I pay taxes and act accordingly... If I lose my life in a duel, my status is never the less retained due to the implicit purpose of the duel...
Boxing as understood in the West came from this social tradition. The difference was, it came to be understood that a fighter was essentially a stand in, a champion representing the people who supported him. No boxers ever were allowed to step in a boxing ring with the express purpose of killing another man. Homicide, as a consequence was purely allowed as part of a contract....at least eventually when boxing was allowed as a sport.
Boxers were competing for Titles. Titles are status, they only retain their power, in so far as they are recognized by others! Isn't this why we lampoon fools like Charlie Z? Who created his own title, Belt? The truth is: These belts mean nothing without a contract with some group that recognizes the Titles. We call this group "boxing fans."
The Lineal is, in a sense, a social contract that permits a man to literally kill another, provided he enters into an implicit contract, a social contract recognized by the state as legitimate. The other part of this contract is the reason for the fighter's activity. A fighter does not go into the ring for blood lust, rather there is a mutual respect for fellow fighters, and it is understood that the fight is for glory... Glory as our own Marchegiano has researched, comes form Greek ideals related to the Olympics... Fans are absolutely necessary to recognize Glory, because without fans there can be no Glory.
Boxing replaced a system where maintaining status, the original ideal behind duels, was replaced by fighting for the aprobation of the public, the fans. And it has always been IMPLICIT that the consideration (contract) in a boxing match was a chance to fight to be the best as recognized by? Those bestowing glory upon the fighters.
The lineal is the social contract that is always in force. It provides consideration, a service, and a process to determine to whom the winnings go.
Finally: Why is the lineal not cited? If I get pulled over for a traffic stop and a cop is polite, I have no reason to cite my rights. I know some i d i o t s behave otherwise... But a normal intelligent person, when a cop is not violating a right, generally do not preface the social contract governing police power and citizens... Does not mean the contract is not in force now does it? The lineal only needs to be explicit at times when it is violated, or needs to be interpreted. The lineal alone obligated that, at least in the Heavyweight division, there be an undisputed champion at some point, who got there beating the best contender. And the basis for this authority is our implicit contract as fans, with the fighters who compete for our approval.
Contracts are often implicit. No contract can exist with no "consideration", something of value to exchange for the goods and/or ,services offered in a contract. You do not sign a contract when a plumber comes over... It is "Implicit" understood that you will pay a fee for your pipes being fixed. Nobody has to make it explicit right?
Cus Amato allegedlly told Mike Tyson that "A Boxing Ring is the only place homicide is legal." As citizens of America, with inalienable rights, we cannot simply construct a magical boxing ring and declare homicide legal... Just as we do not have to make explicit our rights when we exorscize them, an actual boxing match has obligations that go along with the right to suspend what would otherwise be a capitol offense against another citizen. Again, imagine you have an argument with a neighbor and both of you decide to construct a ring and claim you were "boxing" if anyone dies... How far would that get you in a court of law?
Boxing comes from Duels and THIS IS KEY to understanding the lineal: Duels had implicit rules to be followed. Nobody had to tell participants, you cannot ambush your opponent the night before the duel, you cannot show emotional outbursts, you cannot dress like a tramp, you cannot use a weapon that gives you an unfair advantage... etc, etc. Nobody would claim that these rules did not exist because they were not stated! On the contrary, the rules that were stated were just an adjunct, made to ultimately reinforce that which was implicit.
A duel was, a social contract. Citizens all enter into such a contract, which is alas, implicit as well. In return for the roads, policing power of government, I pay taxes and act accordingly... If I lose my life in a duel, my status is never the less retained due to the implicit purpose of the duel...
Boxing as understood in the West came from this social tradition. The difference was, it came to be understood that a fighter was essentially a stand in, a champion representing the people who supported him. No boxers ever were allowed to step in a boxing ring with the express purpose of killing another man. Homicide, as a consequence was purely allowed as part of a contract....at least eventually when boxing was allowed as a sport.
Boxers were competing for Titles. Titles are status, they only retain their power, in so far as they are recognized by others! Isn't this why we lampoon fools like Charlie Z? Who created his own title, Belt? The truth is: These belts mean nothing without a contract with some group that recognizes the Titles. We call this group "boxing fans."
The Lineal is, in a sense, a social contract that permits a man to literally kill another, provided he enters into an implicit contract, a social contract recognized by the state as legitimate. The other part of this contract is the reason for the fighter's activity. A fighter does not go into the ring for blood lust, rather there is a mutual respect for fellow fighters, and it is understood that the fight is for glory... Glory as our own Marchegiano has researched, comes form Greek ideals related to the Olympics... Fans are absolutely necessary to recognize Glory, because without fans there can be no Glory.
Boxing replaced a system where maintaining status, the original ideal behind duels, was replaced by fighting for the aprobation of the public, the fans. And it has always been IMPLICIT that the consideration (contract) in a boxing match was a chance to fight to be the best as recognized by? Those bestowing glory upon the fighters.
The lineal is the social contract that is always in force. It provides consideration, a service, and a process to determine to whom the winnings go.
Finally: Why is the lineal not cited? If I get pulled over for a traffic stop and a cop is polite, I have no reason to cite my rights. I know some i d i o t s behave otherwise... But a normal intelligent person, when a cop is not violating a right, generally do not preface the social contract governing police power and citizens... Does not mean the contract is not in force now does it? The lineal only needs to be explicit at times when it is violated, or needs to be interpreted. The lineal alone obligated that, at least in the Heavyweight division, there be an undisputed champion at some point, who got there beating the best contender. And the basis for this authority is our implicit contract as fans, with the fighters who compete for our approval.
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