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NFL Football and boxing are perhaps more inhuman than those activities. You should add sports that fry the participant's brains to the list of things to not sup
by brianwawok 10y ago
NFL Football and boxing are perhaps more inhuman than those activities. You should add sports that fry the participant's brains to the list of things to not support
- filoeleven 10y agoI don't think they're more imhumane, simply because people get to choose whether or not to participate in them, unlike the animals. And in fact now that we have this information, support for football is starting to decline at the high school level at least. Not by much yet but it could be a trend.
- hueving 10y agoMany children start playing football because of peer pressure and parental pressure. It's not as much of simple choice as you think. If the bar was "the kid could technically decide not to", then we would allow advertising cigarettes to children.
- CocaKoala 10y agoNobody's going into the NFL because of peer pressure.
- taeric 10y agoIs this a joke?
- CocaKoala 10y agoI agree that some people, especially in the highschool level, will play football because of peer pressure. Who do you believe is putting in the work required to play football professionally, but doing it purely out of peer pressure?
- taeric 10y agoI view the pool of people that get into it professionally as including the set that got into it at the school level. That is, I viewed it as two different points. I will agree that there is unlikely anyone staying in professional football from the peer pressure. However, that they got into football at all is probably attributable to that.
- CocaKoala 10y agoSo, you're saying that nobody is going into the NFL because of peer pressure?
- hueving 10y agoYeah, the population definitely doesn't idolize NFL players and provide so much viewership that they get millions of dollars annually just to play.
- brianwawok 10y agoSomeone with no job prospects is offered millions of dollars to cause himself brain damage. You think you can make the right decision?
- Esau 10y agoNo one is forced to play football or box.
- brianwawok 10y agoNice to think that. Not really true. Meet some college football players sometime. Most could have at best got a job as a janitor.
- WhitneyLand 10y agoNot even comparable. First, people make these choices voluntarily and are not in servitude. Secondly, even as science is revealing the horror of the consequences, a lot of these people still choose to do it. For example when you tell star college football players the NFL has a 40% chance of brain damage, most will still go. It's hard for me to understand, but the fame, fortune, glory, adulation some believe is a fair trade off. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/12/40-percent-of-former-nfl-players-suffer-from-brain-damage-new-study-shows https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/1...
- hueving 10y agoIt's almost as if it's like a drug or gambling when the rational choice is not what people make.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y agoWay ahead of you on that one.