President Murtaza Rakhimov is an autocrat, but his rule is heavy-handed rather than bloody.The argument, his friends insist, is really about money, and his government is quite ready to talk about it.
Better still is Robert Newman's The Brain Show, an esoteric hour of erudite comedy from the activist, novelist and comic forwarding a bloody-minded argument against neuro-determinism.
The collapse of the Ottoman Empire was bloody, the Turkish argument goes, and those who died were victims of that chaos.
Our bloody past, and historical arguments notwithstanding, I take it as a given that Americans cherish democracy.
Scalia has called this argument "waving the bloody shirt of Brown", and indicated that he would have joined the first Justice Harlan's solitary dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 case that Brown overruled.
The reason for his skepticism is simple: "These bloody politicians". Among the many arguments Indians make against giving up Kashmir is the sanctity of their country as a secular state, where all religions are supposed to be treated with equal respect.
Christianity has been a passionate argument, periodically escalating to bloody conflict, since its inception.
The effect is a powerful argument that Strindberg's bloody notions about men and women still obtain.
Though arguments over resources can often be bloody (a score of Indian leaders are thought to have been killed last year for their wealth) they are usually local.
"There's so much bloody machismo wrapped up in this sort of [100 percent-ing] argument," says Stuart.
The archetypal bad fan shrugs off any notion of moral complexity; he fast-forwards through arguments with the nagging wife and freeze-frames the bloody whackings.
