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You can't consent to being seriously injured by someone else. (Medical treatments not only require written consent when possible, but are based on competing har
by harshreality 11y ago
You can't consent to being seriously injured by someone else. (Medical treatments not only require written consent when possible, but are based on competing harms.)
Why is there an exception for letting someone try to hit you in the head, repeatedly, for "sport"?
It seems like the only reason it's legal is that it wasn't really acknowledged until recently that repeated blows to the head (and the resulting brain and neck/brainstem trauma) could cause serious long-term cognitive deficits, and the legal system hasn't caught up with that yet.
- rayiner 11y ago> It seems like the only reason it's legal is that it wasn't really acknowledged until recently that repeated blows to the head Dementia pugilistica (boxer's dementia) was first described in 1928: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_pugilistica#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_pugilistica#History. Doctors have been calling for a ban on boxing since the 1950's.
- atom-morgan 11y ago> You can't consent to being seriously injured by someone else. You can't?
- saint_fiasco 11y agoThe laws are complex and varied, but there are always some things you can't consent to. For example, you can donate your organs but not sell them, you can work for someone else but only so many hours, and some jobs are forbidden, etc. The idea of forbidding certain things even with consent is that pre-committing to not doing those things makes you less vulnerable to blackmail.