One might as well say that baseball — in which the players are armed with clubs and throw deadly missiles at near lethal velocities — is inherently violent, and therefore bound to accept fighting as a legitimate internal code of self-defense.
"I cannot accept fighting with the Islamic State, or with anyone else," he said.
However, a group that sees oppressors and those they recruit in their service as simply evil, and that accepts fighting fire with fire, implants into its own DNA the genes that replicate a demonizing, oppressor mentality.
It is generally accepted that fighting resulting from an emotional event within the game is part of the sport.
"At this point, we're going to bow down gracefully, and accept that fighting this in court probably isn't the best use of anyone's time," Take Back the Night executive director Katherine Koestner writes in a statement via BuzzFeed.
Again, however, if you are willing to suspend judgment, even logic for a moment, there is the possibility that you might discover greater power and ability to create life as you would prefer it, rather than simply accepting (or fighting) what appears to show up out of the blue.
At a news conference before the tournament, a journalist in a black cowboy hat asked Kilbourne if she would like to see fighting accepted in the women's game.
But the message of never accepting defeat and fighting until the last was embraced by players and supporters alike, and never better demonstrated than in the unforgettable Europa League quarter-final comeback against Dortmund.
Michael O'Neill accepts he is fighting an uphill battle in his attempt to give Northern Ireland fans the World Cup appearance they crave.
We accept the testosterone fighting behavior as normal while half of humanity is not considered in that norm.
