Ginsburg, who has never met or treated Suárez, told me he was reluctant to make assumptions about the footballer's character in particular. But as a general rule, he says that putting a player with poor impulse control in such a hypercharged context is like sprinkling your fireplace with gunpowder. "It's the situation and it's also who we're dealing with," he says. "These huge emotional outbursts can start to make a kind of sense."

Ginsburg从来没有见过和治疗过苏亚雷斯，他告诉我他不太愿意刻意对该名球员的性格做出任何假设。但按照一般规则来说，这种咬人之举就像把火药丢进火炉一样，体现了苏神对冲动薄弱的自控力。“这种情况和这样的人是我们正在研究的对象，”他说：“这些心理大爆发行为开始有了它们的意义。”

Bad sportsmanship occasionally pays off, as when a player might hypothetically handle the ball off the line in a World Cup match against, say, Ghana. But Ginsburg notes that it would be hard to argue that Suárez's more tooth-focused behaviour was somehow strategic. Though he wasn't penalized for his light Italian snack, FIFA could choose to ban Suárez for the rest of the tournament.

差劲的职业道德偶尔也会有好处，像在世界杯里对战加纳时，这些职业素质底下的球员可能会经常把球踢出界。有人表示苏亚雷斯的咬人行为是战略安排而不是故意的，但Ginsburg表示这种观点几乎站不住脚。虽然苏亚雷斯在那场比赛上没有收到裁判的判罚，但是赛后足联还是判处苏亚雷斯在剩余的比赛里禁赛。

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