(March 22, 2015 at 6:49 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(March 22, 2015 at 11:44 am)Brian37 Wrote: Go back and read what I said. Barbaric does not mean illegal. I have accepted consent is involved, but that does not make boxing a game of patty cakes. It is a violent sport. So is NHL hockey and the NFL.
I simply think you cant get rid of contact sports outright because men evolved with testosterone. But to say it isn't barbaric is a joke. You spend most of your life sloshing your brain around sure you can, but it will in the end have long term affects on you.
I am sure all pro sports men are quite capable of civility outside of the event. But contact sports are literally a simulation of war. It is a very evolutionary trait, but to say it it safe and good for the individual outside of proving their ego, is a joke.
Now show me where I said you could create a utopia where no one does it. It is still barbaric. It is still male refusal to understand they are not super human.
I smoke, I know it is bad for me. I don't see myself stopping because it is an addiction. Does that make me a hypocrite knowing it is bad for me? Yes, but I still don't lie to myself.
Contact sports, especially ones that involve the head getting hit, is barbaric and not healthy for the person doing it. No you cannot stop it, but you shouldn't lie to yourself or anyone else about how dangerous it is.
Women do contact sports too you know. Sexist.
Show me in my response where I claimed women don't play contact sports. Some women box too, still doesn't make it healthy long term.
I was specifically talking about boxing, even soccer can have head injuries and women play soccer too.
And none of this says anyone should be forced to stop. But lets stop pretending just because either sex plays a contact sport that it doesn't have long term damage.
Violence is violence, consensual or not.
