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I don't mean to make to big a stretch here, but shouldn't the advertising companies also be held morally culpable for exacerbating CTE? I mean the NFL had an i

by debt 9y ago

I don't mean to make to big a stretch here, but shouldn't the advertising companies also be held morally culpable for exacerbating CTE? I mean the NFL had an incentive to increase the hits and blows to make it more entertaining, to draw more people, to sell ads. I do see a future, where, unless the sport changes, companies will start pulling their ads from football games.

kareemsabri 9y ago
Sure, but there's degrees of moral responsibility. Shouldn't the spectators, should the player's parents etc.
- chrxr 9y ago
  "Who killed Davey Moore, Why an' what's the reason for?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_Davey_Moore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_Davey_Moore
whatshisface 9y ago
If the dominant motivation wasn't to make the big games more interesting, I don't know what it would be! Although "evil laundering" is definitely something that we have to watch out for, it isn't always practical to hold people responsible for their entire supply chains when we could otherwise go straight to the actual problem-causers.
babygoat 9y ago
As you said, more hits and blows draw more viewers. Ad sales increase. Until violence becomes less popular, I'm not convinced that companies will start pulling their ads.
- this_user 9y ago
  Ultimately, the audience is responsible. The NFL is merely delivering what people want to see. And the audience are the people who are paying for this, either directly by buying tickets or broadcasts or indirectly by buying products that are advertised. Everyone else is just following the money, and they have no incentive to stop.
  - leggomylibro 9y ago
    >And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up. - Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
  - steaknsteak 9y ago
    It's a shared responsibility. The NFL has devoted a lot of effort to hiding the reality of what the audience is watching. Now that we know fully how dangerous it is, it's our responsibility to stop watching it.

by debt 9y ago

kareemsabri 9y ago

Sure, but there's degrees of moral responsibility. Shouldn't the spectators, should the player's parents etc.

chrxr 9y ago
"Who killed Davey Moore, Why an' what's the reason for?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_Davey_Moore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_Davey_Moore

whatshisface 9y ago

If the dominant motivation wasn't to make the big games more interesting, I don't know what it would be! Although "evil laundering" is definitely something that we have to watch out for, it isn't always practical to hold people responsible for their entire supply chains when we could otherwise go straight to the actual problem-causers.

babygoat 9y ago

As you said, more hits and blows draw more viewers. Ad sales increase. Until violence becomes less popular, I'm not convinced that companies will start pulling their ads.

this_user 9y ago
Ultimately, the audience is responsible. The NFL is merely delivering what people want to see. And the audience are the people who are paying for this, either directly by buying tickets or broadcasts or indirectly by buying products that are advertised. Everyone else is just following the money, and they have no incentive to stop.
- leggomylibro 9y ago
  >And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up. - Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
- steaknsteak 9y ago
  It's a shared responsibility. The NFL has devoted a lot of effort to hiding the reality of what the audience is watching. Now that we know fully how dangerous it is, it's our responsibility to stop watching it.