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April 21st, 2008, 05:46 PM
IMO the OP is an attempt to create double think; where it invokes an emotional response by creating an impression (pictures of crying kids and parallels with animals tearing each other apart) then concludes wrongly that this isn't a sport just as dangerous as any other - after all animals die when they fight! And look: those children are crying!
The double think is then that we can hold this kind of sport (fighting - even the name is horrific) is bad without questioning whether other sports are good or even necessary!?! We hold this idea because we have now associated kick boxing with animals tearing each other to pieces and little blond girls crying. We come to this perception not because we have seen any of this stuff personally but because we have seen a specific presentation of it.
So we have now the moral bases to make firm concrete "gut reaction" conclusions about certain sports without ever having experienced a thing.
This is unauthentic experience and it plagues our society like a cancer. It creates people with very strong emotional responses completely unfounded on anything they have encountered personally and bereft of real fact though they would argue differently or are unaware that their opinions are completely vacant of experience!
I have noticed a trend as science is increasingly politicized, which seems to be an accelerating trend, that opinions are also mostly vacant of real fact too!
IMO the OP is an attempt to create double think; where it invokes an emotional response by creating an impression (pictures of crying kids and parallels with animals tearing each other apart) then concludes wrongly that this isn't a sport just as dangerous as any other - after all animals die when they fight! And look: those children are crying!
The double think is then that we can hold this kind of sport (fighting - even the name is horrific) is bad without questioning whether other sports are good or even necessary!?! We hold this idea because we have now associated kick boxing with animals tearing each other to pieces and little blond girls crying. We come to this perception not because we have seen any of this stuff personally but because we have seen a specific presentation of it.
So we have now the moral bases to make firm concrete "gut reaction" conclusions about certain sports without ever having experienced a thing.
This is unauthentic experience and it plagues our society like a cancer. It creates people with very strong emotional responses completely unfounded on anything they have encountered personally and bereft of real fact though they would argue differently or are unaware that their opinions are completely vacant of experience!
I have noticed a trend as science is increasingly politicized, which seems to be an accelerating trend, that opinions are also mostly vacant of real fact too!
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April 21st, 2008, 05:51 PM
Certainly if children are regularly knocked out or injured in a sport there should be a better examination of their safety gear.
Quoting karrie
To a certain extent I think there is a need for some bubble warp: baseball and heart attacks.
have you read my posts in the subject before bothering to respond to just one?
Certainly if children are regularly knocked out or injured in a sport there should be a better examination of their safety gear.
April 21st, 2008, 06:01 PM
Quoting Scott Free
You'd think that when so many sports use head gear (boxing, wrestling and other martial arts) for young adults, let alone children, that these guys would have basic padding for developing brains.
Certainly if children are regularly knocked out or injured in a sport there should be a better examination of their safety gear.
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April 22nd, 2008, 01:35 AM
Quoting karrie
I agree. It is scary to think some of these kids might be getting permanent brain damage.
You'd think that when so many sports use head gear (boxing, wrestling and other martial arts) for young adults, let alone children, that these guys would have basic padding for developing brains.
