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Argumentative on paintball [Paper]
Rick Hambright
Arugmentative Paper
11/05/90
Mrs. Johnson
IN THE PUBLIC'S EYE
Public image is the key to success in almost every business ?
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or activity. If the general public thinks poorly of your business ?
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or activity, then you will have trouble surviving. The sport of ?
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paintball is one activity that have been battling a poor public ?
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image since its origins. Paintball is a sport that is usually ?
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played along the same rules as the old boy scout game capture the ?
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flag, except that the participants carry air rifles that project ?
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small paint-filled gelatin capsules or paintballs. The ?
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paintballs are used to mark the opponent, which elliminates them ?
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from play. The poor public image of the sport of paintball is ?
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generally due to the public's ignorance and prejudgement of the ?
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game, which holds very little, if any, truthfulness.
"The public image that paintball players must fight against ?
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is that we are survivalists, warmongers, white supremists, or ?
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hicks with guns" (Bliss 44). To the players these ideas are ?
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utterly rediculous, but to a large portion of the general public ?
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thinks of these things as fact. These thought are true to a ?
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point, but along this line of thinking, any activity could be put ?
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under those headings. There are most defenitely some ?
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survivalists, warmongers, and white supremists that play ?
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paintball, but there are sure to be just as many that are in ?
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baseball or any other such activity. There is going to be a ?
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blend of morals, ideals, and lifestyles in whatever you do, but ?
??labeling the whole as such is plain wrong. The general public ?
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tends to believe anything that the media reports, whether it be ?
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true or not. More times than not when a publication covers the ?
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sport of paintball, they use the label war-games. This is a ?
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gross error on their part and sloppy journalism to say the least. ?
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There are no similarities between this game and war, except that ?
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camouflage is worn by the players and that camouflaged persons ?
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are usually linked to or thought of as military personal. Bow ?
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hunters wear the exact same dress as paintball players, but I ?
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have yet to see hunting labeled as war-games.
Television has not helped paintball's image very much ?
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either. In an episode the series Wiseguy, an issue of Action ?
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Pursuit Games Magazine, a monthly publication totally dedicated ?
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to the sport of paintball, was shown lying on the dresser in the ?
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room of the leader of a neo-nazi, white supremists group. This ?
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automatically links the two together in some people's minds. Not ?
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too many people want to be linked with such a publication. Even ?
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though the publication has nothing what-so-ever to do with white ?
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supremecy, most people not look past this to actually find out ?
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about the publication or the game.
"Another misconception by the public is that in the game of ?
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paintball is violent and that participants shoot their opponents" ?
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(Marr 58). The word shoot alludes to the fact that the person ?
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who was shot had actual damage or injury caused to them, which is ?
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false when speaking of paintball. In this context, the word ?
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shoot alludes to the use of firearms. Paintball air-guns do not ?
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under law or general defenition fall under the classification of ?
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firearms.
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People have joined up in arms in some areas to try to stop ?
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the playing of paintball, just like they would to stop activities ?
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of the Klu Klux Klan. It is all out of ignorance. There are no ?
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political or religious qualifications or binds in the sport of ?
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paintball. "One paintball field owner in Canada was in court for ?
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over two years trying to keep his business open against those who ?
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thought that the field and playing of the game would promote ?
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actual firearm sales and condone acts of violence in the ?
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community" (Russell 9).
Players and field owners around the world have diligently ?
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and constantly been trying to promote a better image for the ?
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sport. All over the United States paintball playing fields have ?
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been holding events where all the procedes from that day go to a ?
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charity fund or organization. Participants want the public to ?
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realize that paintball players are just as much decent and caring ?
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individuals as the next guy.
All of the fallacies and misconceptions about the sport of ?
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paintball stem from the public's ignorance about it. ?
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Participants certainly do not expect individuals to run out and ?
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become involved in the sport, even though they certainly ?
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encourage it. All that they ask is that the public takes the time ?
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to look at the sport before passing judgement or that they ?
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realize that they do not know anything about the sport and should ?
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not jump to the conclusions emitted by the just as ignorant ?
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press.
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