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[Burney]

I know spitting is bad, mmmkay, but it's odd that it is considered worse than murder (which is what a bloody pulp constitutes, by definition).

Violence is an understandable - even honourable - human reaction to this sort of provocation. Spitting is just vile and horrid. The minute you spit at someone, you lose the moral high ground*.

*Although Franck Rijkaard spitting in Rudi Voller's perm was slightly funny.