9/19/2023 0 Comments Philosopht biting the bullet![]() ![]() Chewing on leather in a movie is funny chewing on leather in a cricket match with the aim of helping a fast bowler is ridiculous.” Suresh Menon wrote, “Not since Chaplin made a gourmet meal of his shoes in Gold Rush has feasting on unexpected objects looked so hilarious on the screen. The sight of the Pakistani captain attempting to swallow a cricket ball whole, like a python dislocating its jaw to consume an ostrich egg, will be played continuously across the cricket globe…” Andrew Hughes wrote, “As for Mr Afridi’s oral adventures, little more need be said. South African Captain, Graeme Smith, probably speaking from experience, quipped, “Perhaps he didn’t appreciate the lunch he was given in Australia.” Whatever it was, Afridi will now miss his country’s next two T20 matches- a form of the game in which he excels.Ĭommentary was quick and biting. Umpires changed the ball straight away…”Īfridi’s explanation or sound-bite was, “No I was just trying to smell it, how it is feeling.” The explanation from Intikhab Alam, the Pakistan Coach and former captain was, “It just happened, probably he was eating an apple you know.” The ICC says Afridi was guilty of ‘changing the condition of the ball’ in yesterday’s two-wicket loss to Australia in Perth…Afridi, named captain for the day after Mohammad Yousuf withdrew due to a knee injury, was caught by television cameras biting the ball and running his teeth down the seam. SKY news described the incident which took place on January 31, 2010: “A brain-implosion from Pakistan stand-in captain Shahid Afridi has cost him a two-match Twenty20 international ban from the International Cricket Council for ball tampering. Was it all that it seams? Did he bite off more than he could chew? Interestingly, and one has to be philosophical about this, it might also have involved a Platypus but this time a cricket ball of Australian manufacture. I am referring to what is now known in cricket circles as the Afridi Affair. ![]() In Indonesia a horse attacked a man unloading sand from his cart and bit off his testicles in Sweden a man found guilty of attacking his girlfriend with a knife was granted a reduced sentence because of the suffering he experienced when he had his testicles bitten off by the woman’s Rottweiler and in Chicago a woman bit off the testicles of a man who had sexually assaulted her and took them to Police Headquarters. We’ve all now read, at great length, of biting the bullet, but what about biting the ball? I don’t mean the type that takes testicular fortitude equivalent to biting the bullet although there are some of these. This is not to be confused with a penguin who walks into a bar and asks the bartender, “Have you seen my brother?” and the bartender replies, “I don’t know. If you really want to know more about philosophy in a way that’s fun, read “Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding philosophy through jokes” by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein (Penguin). I don’t propose to provide any other examples so curb your enthusiasm, bite the bullet, and let’s move on. If you are none the wiser for this, bite this particular bullet by way of example, “The strict utilitarian will be forced to admit that if it can be shown that punishing an innocent person would increase the total happiness of the whole society, then there are times when it is morally good to punish an innocent person.” Given a philosopher’s previously held beliefs he or she may have to bite the bullet by accepting a particular claim offered as an extreme or counter-example. It may be disturbing because it is counterintuitive or has other disturbing consequences. Often this will involve accepting a belief that is a disturbing truth. However, in philosophy (according to Wikipedia) “a major goal is to always sustain a consistent set of beliefs using sound reasoning. You would think that biting the bullet is bad enough without having to sink your teeth into philosophy. In general usage the term has come to mean “accepting the consequences of a hard choice or decision”. In the old days when a wounded soldier was undergoing surgery under battlefield conditions, and there was no anesthetic around, the soldier was given a bullet to bite on as a way of dealing with the pain. “Biting the bullet” is not merely a physical act but also has metaphysical consequences. ![]()
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