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Good question... Why should we care? It's like "okay, here we have a bunch of genetically gifted people who spend their whole lives training for that. Why shou
by rglullis 4y ago
Good question... Why should we care?
It's like "okay, here we have a bunch of genetically gifted people who spend their whole lives training for that. Why should we care whether someone can run 100m in less than 10s or not? What difference does it make to any of us if Usain Bolt is the fastest man to run the 200m on a very controlled environment?"
This is not to say that running as an activity is useless, or that we should give up on exercising. I don't know if that is the point from OP, but I myself do question why we collectively think that is so important to devote so much time and resources in trying to optimize for these crazy, arbitrarily-constrained scenarios that we call "sports".
- Semaphor 4y agoThe answer is entertainment. I don’t care about any sports (though after a brief stint in watching LoL esports around 2011-2014, I at least understand the theoretical appeal), but many people do. Others don’t care about music. Or about films. But in the end all of it is bread and games.
- rglullis 4y agoEntertainment works as an answer of why we do it, but not the question I made, which is why/whether we should.