Your first point is incredibly vague. It effectively amounts to "the thing you want to avoid exists", which is a rather trivial notion. Of course those things exist, and in moderation they can be quite healthy. However the crux of my point is that in some contexts these impulses are indulged immoderately, international hockey in Finland being one such case. I contend that this is generally a bad thing and to be avoided.
As to the second point, though a poetic turn of phrase to be sure, it doesn't really amount to much either. Essentially the meaning is "a little of a good thing(being a lion) is better than a lot of a bad thing(being a sheep)". Again, trivial, and furthermore, irrelevant. Living an emotionally driven and bestial life is hardly preferrable to one lived with reason and temperance, I would think.
As to the third, this, I partly agree on. The team has a social and cultural part to play, certainly, however the degree of that is up for discussion. The traditional view might be said to be that it involves building a common dramatic narrative for the purposes of national unity, or some such, but I think that is quite a heavy burden to place on athletics, and has a bit of an unsavory political tone to it as well. That said, even if we are to assume that view, I don't see how it would preclude one from going along with it in a sensible and tempered manner.
P.S. We have strayed quite far from topic here, into some sort of Platonian exchange in ethics and social philosophy. We ought to keep our exchanges more to the issues going forward, lest we provoke the wrath of the dreaded moderation team.
. Well all respect for hes career... Maybe lack of training or long playoff runs have done something for him, but he is shadow of hes best. Kucherov said that pretty openly...
