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If people want to play it & people enjoy watching it, why discard it rather than make it safer?
I enjoy skydiving, drinking copious amounts of alcohol, & eating fried foods. It’s on me to do those things in moderation.
You aren't practically guaranteed to have life changing injury from skydiving, drinking, or eating. Several studies have shown that over 90% of football players have CTE. It's not the same, and not a question of moderation.
The majority of football players do not have CTE. Could they get it? Yes, that’s why this padding has been invented.
These are grown adults taking measured risks & being paid for it, so others can enjoy it.
Don’t like it? Fine. Don’t watch it. But don’t start winging your judgement around thinking everyone who does like it is lesser than you.
People enjoy competition. People enjoy violence. People enjoy booze. People enjoy drugs. People enjoy fuckin’. Get over it.
I guess if you don't like facts, what you said could be true.
345 out of 376 former players have CTE
... the studies that aim to identify the prevalence of CTE in football players have shown unequivocal findings. In the largest ever case series of CTE, involving 202 deceased former football players, Mez et al. demonstrated the existence of CTE in 87%, including 99% ex-NFL Players
Oh, I LOVE facts. This is the 3rd paragraph of your first fact:
“The NFL player data should not be interpreted to suggest that 91.7 percent of all current and former NFL players have CTE, as brain bank samples are subject to selection biases. The prevalence of CTE among NFL players is unknown as CTE can only be definitively diagnosed after death. Repetitive head impacts appear to be the chief risk factor for CTE, which is characterized by misfolded tau protein that is unlike changes observed from aging,”
Never said CTE wasn’t a thing, just pointed out that these padded covers are helping protect against it.
So you didn't look at the second link, the diagnosed after death part. Which was pretty definitive.
To be fair, I don't care if grown men want to brain damage themselves. I enjoy watching both boxing and MMA. I don't think it's something younger people should be doing though, the head striking at least. At the same time, I'm not going to fool myself that these people I'm watching aren't damaging their brains.
Neither am I. Those are grown adults getting paid adult wages & who are given adult options to measure their risk vs reward.
The second link doesn’t prove anything as long as football is still a billion dollar industry in this world. Study as many deceased brains as you like, doesn’t change the fact the living ones still like making millions of dollars smashing into one another.
I’m just not willing to call for the dissolution of the NFL or NCAA Football programs because of the possibility.
Football isn’t the enemy here. We put those folks on their pedestals & now everyone wants to blame them for being there.
Because in order to allow them to play it, we are literally damaging our children's brains?
Don’t let your kids play it? That is your responsibility, not society’s.
Only the parents that allow their children to do it though
People enjoyed playing and watching jousting. We stopped doing it because it's dangerous and stupid.
Also, drinking copious amounts of alcohol isn't just on you if you have a family.
No, we actually didn't stop doing it. You probably haven't heard of it because fewer people no enjoy watching it.
I watched numerous jousting matches in my life.
What we did stop was pretending it's real combat. Today's jousting matches are more like pro wrestling, where the bruises are real, but the outcome is scripted.
I mean that's cool about jousting, but I think you're missing the point. Which I don't believe was about jousting specifically.
Maybe they should have referred to how we used to watch lions eat humans for sport in the colosseum. Popular shit from what I understand. Should we keep doing that because people liked it?
Public executions are another one...
People stopped jousting because heads were severed & blood was spilt. I quite enjoy watching the jousting at ren fairs.
Drinking copious amounts of alcohol is not something I invite my family to participate in.
Unless they want to joust. Then I might be swayed.