“We had had WAS on the job, I had become that players”
“How much justice do we really have?”
“This is a kulturartikel which is a part of Aftonbladet’s opinionsjournalistik.”
“No one can resist the rational society, despite the fact that it only seems to make us angry.”
“Recently sent the podcast This american life, a section on justice, and chose to focus on sports. More specifically, the NBA and basketball, where it is put down astronomical sums of money on advanced technology that helps in the decision. At the same time be pointed out that the protests against the judges is more shrill and hateful than ever – despite the fact that all the evidence suggests that the scales will be more accurate. Who will ever able to be a judge? The requirements increases, the competence also increases, but people just gets angrier. The feeling that we are treated unfairly is growing. In the united states, it is assumed in addition to be linked with a distrust of authority figures in general.”
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“The great public was probably familiar with WAS (Video assistant referee) during the fifa world CUP in the summer. Players who made a square sign with his hands, which meant: Check the replay! The reactions were strong. It is the still. More punishing, long pauses when the judge runs out to the sideline, and goals that everyone believes is the case and, therefore, the cheering, and then thrown back to the disappointment. “
“When I heard about the system, I was positive. How could one not be? Would finally justice is done! Never more would you fret over the lost points, or the nagging FEELING that some teams and countries was always injured.”
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“that was not, WAS rather stirred up more anger among the fans than before it was used. It still gets wrong is well a thing, but more than anything else have gotten me to think about what justice really is, and what price we are willing to pay for it. “
“the Sport I love, who already is accused of cheating and masking, are increasingly beginning to resemble a patch of grass where the twenty-two mansbäbisar running around and begging lördagsgodis in the form of the judge must return a sequence. “
“And the worst part is that you yourself would act the same way. A misunderstanding at work, you KNOW that it was not your fault, and suddenly there are surveillance cameras that allow to get to the bottom of it all.”
“There’s an old saying in football that goes that ”it evens itself out in the long run”. That is to say, sometimes affects the injustice your team, but wait a bit and soon it will be the same team that gets an undeserved punishment. There is something nice with this idea. And the blackened down to millimeters of justice is something that is now going to require. “
“The rational society become so rational that we ultimately still do not understand what is going on. I go home from the Friends arena with Empire of words in the headphones: Is it really peace that we want, at every possible price? “
