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Might be better if, when trying to promote your passion, you don’t bash others. I’d argue getting people excited about sport, and society as a whole playing mo
by TheSpiceIsLife 6y ago
Might be better if, when trying to promote your passion, you don’t bash others.
I’d argue getting people excited about sport, and society as a whole playing more of it, is an unbounded good.
I even know some research scientists who play sport recreationally, and follow professional-level sport.
Plenty of room and resources for both!
- landryraccoon 6y agoI absolutely agree with you. Sports are good. But it's an arbitrary good, because it's determined culturally. The rules of soccer could be changed at any time, and it would probably be just as exciting. Soccer is fun because we all agree it's fun, and no other intrinsic reason. There's no reason we can't get excited about a monument to science the same way. If we have to spend billions just to get excited about science (without producing actual research), we should do it, just as we spend billions on sports just for fun and not because it produces any physical goods.