MelodicLullaby
Custodis of the Sepulchrum
When you look at it from a reality sense, then neither is worse than the other. They can both cause physical harm, and can be severely dangerous to the individual that said choking or kidnapping-then-crashing-repeatedly is being done to. However, we can't look at this with our eyes in a real life context - this is WWE realism. It's true that most things are scripted in the show, but I do believe that in bouts like the one on Monday with the "invasion", it's too big of a situation to just script, and they allow the boys to go out and cause some damage, as long as no one gets injured.
Now, I'm going to put my opinion on the stand of why the WWE is so strict against choking, but not this entire kidnapping deal. When you really think about it, it makes sense. First, I'll discuss the choking.
Little kids watch wrestling; it's no secret, and it's why a lot of the adults begin their moaning and groaning about the PG Era and Cena showing up with his flippity floppy hand motions. We all know the world is just a big pile of "monkey see, monkey do". These kids are likely to want to try what they see on the television, to be like the "big stars" they see every Monday and Friday night. The choking in this context is this - a little kid sees a wrestler choke someone on the screen, and they think it seems cool (because most children have become stupid nowadays), so they want to try it with their friends. It's just like the two kids who pull out their dad's gun and give it a try because it seems cool. It puts them in direct risk of causing a major asphyxiation accident if they decide to go and choke another kid out to feel like a fighter. The Benoit thing too, but I decided to give another reason to the whole outlook.
Now, the kidnapping. Do we really need to go after this one? First of all, like I said, it's kids that watch this show most, and it's kids that Vince and the management are being so cautious over. What is the likelihood of a seven year old child kidnapping a grown person (or child), throwing them into a car, and smashing it all over the place? I honestly can't name an incident of similarity to what I described. But this is really the only reason that there's no rule settled over those kidnapping scenarios - the possibility of a child going out and making a mock version of it is too low to even bring up the consideration that "this might be represented bad."
TL;DR
Kids can copy the choking incident a lot easier than the kidnapping one. The possibilities of the latter happening is a near zero chance.
Now, I'm going to put my opinion on the stand of why the WWE is so strict against choking, but not this entire kidnapping deal. When you really think about it, it makes sense. First, I'll discuss the choking.
Little kids watch wrestling; it's no secret, and it's why a lot of the adults begin their moaning and groaning about the PG Era and Cena showing up with his flippity floppy hand motions. We all know the world is just a big pile of "monkey see, monkey do". These kids are likely to want to try what they see on the television, to be like the "big stars" they see every Monday and Friday night. The choking in this context is this - a little kid sees a wrestler choke someone on the screen, and they think it seems cool (because most children have become stupid nowadays), so they want to try it with their friends. It's just like the two kids who pull out their dad's gun and give it a try because it seems cool. It puts them in direct risk of causing a major asphyxiation accident if they decide to go and choke another kid out to feel like a fighter. The Benoit thing too, but I decided to give another reason to the whole outlook.
Now, the kidnapping. Do we really need to go after this one? First of all, like I said, it's kids that watch this show most, and it's kids that Vince and the management are being so cautious over. What is the likelihood of a seven year old child kidnapping a grown person (or child), throwing them into a car, and smashing it all over the place? I honestly can't name an incident of similarity to what I described. But this is really the only reason that there's no rule settled over those kidnapping scenarios - the possibility of a child going out and making a mock version of it is too low to even bring up the consideration that "this might be represented bad."
TL;DR
Kids can copy the choking incident a lot easier than the kidnapping one. The possibilities of the latter happening is a near zero chance.
