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Nice example of American football, since players have brain injuries, should we ban it too?
by DavidKarlas 5y ago
Nice example of American football, since players have brain injuries, should we ban it too?
- lanternfish 5y agoWhile there is a legitimate argument to be made in favor of either restructuring or banning American football, it's clear that the moral culpability relating to these systems aren't comparable. A fundamentally very small population is vulnerable to the TBI risk of American football, and the vast majority of that population willfully decides to engage in that risk with knowledge of it. However, the environmental and economic (supply chain) externalities of Cryptocurrency are imposed upon those who don't opt into the system, and also operate entire orders of magnitude higher in scope.
- oblio 5y agoIdeally, reform it. We had gladiators for centuries because we were ok with some dying or getting injured for the entertainment of many others. That didn't make it right.