Infected Mushroom wrote:The evils of Boxing cannot be understated. Since 1980, around 200 people involved in boxing have died during training or battle in the ring. Contrary to popular belief, protective headgear does NOT prevent the long-term and short-term high risk of brain damage.
It is abhorrent that we have gotten rid of the Colosseum but maintain boxing. The fact that it ''entertains'' people is a very dark commentary on what Western society has devolved into. Society should not allow profiteers (match hosts, corporations, advertisers etc) to make big bucks by encouraging and promoting people to fight each other as a spectacle. People have gotten hurt and will continue to get hurt; it is also a shameless promotion of violence and physicality, tasteless in all respects.
http://www.livestrong.com/article/54187 ... of-boxing/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing#Medical_concernshttps://www.newscientist.com/article/mg ... dangerous/I believe that boxing should be banned. It would be for the boxers' own good.
What do you think?
Okay fine, ban boxing. But also realize that you'd also have to ban:
Hockey
Football
MMA
UFC
Rugby
Lacrosse
And all other contact sports.
Because you claim that
" protective headgear does NOT prevent the long-term and short-term high risk of brain damage. "
has been used against the NFL and the NHL. In reality, shame on you for only targeting one sport instead of attacking the entire sports industry.
"People have gotten hurt and will continue to get hurt; it is also a shameless promotion of violence and physicality, tasteless in all respects"
People will always get hurt, people will always want to fight, it is literally part of being human and our bodies have evolved to take and withstand substantial damage from others. And why just target boxing too? Why not target the entertainment industry in general for over valuing violence?
You can't cherry pick your fights, if you want to ban boxing over the claim that it only benefits the corporations, that it promotes violence and physicality because let me tell you right now there is a laundry list of things that you'll have to ban as well.
http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/human-hands-evolved-for-punching-121219.htm