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People don't understand the point of competition is virtue, not winning. Take the 'winning' mentality to its logical extreme of killing all the competition, an
by yters 7y ago
People don't understand the point of competition is virtue, not winning.
Take the 'winning' mentality to its logical extreme of killing all the competition, and the absurdity of it all becomes obvious.
- mendelmaleh 7y agoThe point of competition is to compete (which is why you need to leave the competition alive,) and sort best to worst. Why you would do that is subjective.
- yters 7y agoLike I said, if the point is just winning the whole thing is absurd. And yes, people can do something for whatever reason they choose. But, if the reason they choose is at odds with the reason the thing exists, then they undermine the thing's existence. At best they are ignorant. At worst they are actively trying to destroy that in which they are participating.
- braythwayt 7y agoCough. At this point, the virtuous aspect of sports have taken a nearly complete back seat to power, prestige, and pecuniarum. Universities, for example, ought to be the epitome of pursuing sport for the sake of virtuous self-development. And yet, what do we see there? A system so corrupt it is a miracle it doesn't collapse under the weight of outrage. Athletes who ruin their bodies for nothing except the hope of being drafted to play as professionals, while their coaches are paid millions of dollars a year, We can choose to pursue sport for virtue's sake, but we're kidding ourselves if we believe that this is how sport actually works as an industry within capitalism, or as practiced by flag-waving nation-states.
- mongol 7y agoThanks for exposing me to a (for me) new word.