People enjoyed watching criminals be torn apart by lions in ages past. That people enjoy something is hardly sufficient. As a society we have to consider the a

People enjoyed watching criminals be torn apart by lions in ages past. That people enjoy something is hardly sufficient. As a society we have to consider the amount of resources we put into, and damage caused by, all our pasttimes. Particularly for things which don't appear at all innate - maintaining lawns is by no means popular around the world, it's mostly a European diaspora thing. If it were stopped, it's doubtful most people would even remember them in a generation or two.