It is like cattle marking, only invisible and painless.
Cheshire police in northwestern England will start using a transparent spray in football fans to fight fights at stadiums and pubs.
It “marks” clothes and skin with a DNA solution that is coded and lasts months. Thus, rods can be tracked later. You can see the liquid through ultraviolet light and it can be used as forensic evidence. Traders have used the spray who enters stores to steal. The debut in sport will be in the 3rd division matches this weekend.
“Hooliganism,” the headlines say.
The theme is not new to the British. Football here has undergone a gigantic transformation since the 1980s, when clashes between police and hooligans dominated the sports pages.
Today, those who commit offense or crime in a stadium are identified and can even be banned forever. Going to a match is a safe and civilized program: the fan arrives and leaves public transportation, has a seat, virtually everyone respects the rules. Even so, recent statistics show 18% increase in incidents in games in England and Wales.
Reading news like this spray makes me think how much money and time are invested in those who leave home willing to get confused (this was not the term they wanted to use, but decorum does not allow me another) in a soccer match.
What does one voluntarily spoil one’s own day and others, the public assets sometimes, just when they will watch the heart team?
It seems that one million dollar question to which, centuries, philosophers and thinkers have been trying to find an answer: Is the human being, by nature, good or bad?
Thomas Hobbes thought people are born bad and need rules that control their instincts. Enlightenment Jean Jacques Rousseau argued that the human being has innate kindness, and would remain that were not the ambition and inequality of the class system imposed by society. No wonder, some studies in the area today are done in babies, perfect white screens.
I have no opinion formed. And Brazil and the United Kingdom each have its peculiarities. British society is also civilized because it can see and experience the positive consequences of this; They see, in practice, that order and organization improve people’s lives. There is money and desire to invest in technologies that improve experience and safety of the sports viewer.
At the same time, I think there are people who do not do something wrong for fear – you will be seen by a security camera, and the law, fulfilled.
In Brazil also include social, cultural, economic issues … I find it funny to ask for my social security number until when I buy a bullet in the pharmacy (not just for the discount) and my identity for almost everything. It seems a constant distrust.
If Hobbes, Rousseau, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Freud did not come to a consensus, I imagine the challenge of those who research the theme in today’s world. Meanwhile, the experience of watching the sport live, which should be fun and for everyone, gives way to the fear of going to the stadium.
And we turn to invisible sprays.
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