(July 26, 2016 at 4:24 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Thousands of deaths? That sounds like an exaggeration. Deaths in boxing are very rare.
Not nearly rare enough, since the boxing gloves have been introduced allowing for continuous punching in the head. Here's a list of ~1200 fatalities since the beginning of the 20th century alone. http://boxrec.com/media/index.php?title=...s#mw-pages
I doubt the list is exhaustive even for that period. And I don't care enough to check if it includes other similar fighting sports, like thai-boxing, or MMA. The point is - if boxing was unknown and was introduced now - every sensible person would consider it un unnecessarily risky activity and a barbaric display too. Pokémon Go has nothing on this sh*t.
(July 26, 2016 at 4:24 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Sports are good.
Yeah, sure - whatever you say. Kids giving each other concussions for the sake of entertainment for their idiot parents, trying to live out their own unfulfilled ambitions - that sure sounds... good.
(July 26, 2016 at 4:24 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: People who fear the risk of injury are just using it as an excuse to stay lazy.
I've got a simple answer to this assertion - bullsh*t. But hey - whatever helps you feel better than other people.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw