It's almost like that was a terrible analogy that provided no insight at all. Since the article provided no information other than that one analogy, I stopped there with my discussion of it. The article boiled down to, "pitchers throw at batters, that's bad, pitchers throw at batters, that's bad". I agree it's bad, but saying to stop it is pointless, since it's been said before. Insight as to why they do it is needed before anything useful can be proposed. I have my theories, concerning a culture that forbids the expression of fear or pain, but they're half-baked.