Reasons to just do away (I am not suggesting a government ban) on competive sports. Ex. basketball, football, baseball, damn near everything else. I wasn’t always like this. Had a conversation with wife of a co-worker 20 some years ago and thought she was nuts. Funny how time and reconsideration can change a person outlook.
A huge waste of time. Unproductive except for large corporations and inflating players egos.
It reinforces division and us vs. them attitudes. Not unity and cooperation like what is needed today.
Add in b.s. like taking a knee during the anthem and men in womens sports, let’s just do away with competive sports.
If you want to ‘stick it to the man’ of overpaid athletes and mega-rich sports conglomerates, please consider.
I now spend my sundays at the rifle range.
You imagine a world too beautiful for humans.
Sport sucks, it’s boring and teaches kids how to sort people into us vs them based on arbitrary nonsense.
But like belief in divine agency, it’s presence across most societies throughout history probably means it’s just unfortunately a part of the human experience.
Edit: “men in womens sports”: this is absolute garbage that doesn’t happen and being worried about it marks you as gullible, hateful and ignorant.
Well run sports programs for kids teach them to work together and challenge themselves. The best even teach ways to handle failure and to grow from practice.
Poorly run ones promote the us vs them and other negative aspects.
The existence of professional sports teaches children how to arbitrarily hate people by sorting them according to team support.
If letting your kids watch a footie match makes them hate people, you’re doing it wrong. And by “it”, I mean parenting.