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Is violent sport an inherent part of a country's psychic makeup? Mexico has wrestling? What about Bermuda?
by Jesus_Jones 9y ago
Is violent sport an inherent part of a country's psychic makeup? Mexico has wrestling? What about Bermuda?
- cmurf 9y agoI think violence is an inherent part of being a primate. It needs some kind of outlet, be it preemptive wars of choice or civil wars, as the animal gets a bit smarter then there are gladiator games, still pretty vicious but structured, and the smarter ape man gets the more structure and skill and preserving the life of the sportsman the rules get. It's the spectators that drive the structuring every bit as much as the owners. The more debased the spectators are, the more violence persists in the sport. So yeah blame the owners for knowing about football's lifelong consequences before and after the discovery of CTE, but that it persists is squarely on the spectators who keep paying for it.