The “purpose” of sports is the same as anything else: to do it to the best of your ability. You seem to have contrived this whole thing in your head which is clearly not shared by others who participate in sports or just like to watch them. This is a “you” problem, not a societal problem.
Yeah, I have no response to this if this is truly what you believe. Whether the sport is judged by a scorecard or by touchdowns doesn’t matter.
“Children say that famous athletes rank second only to parents (92%) and on par with their teachers (72%) as the people they admire most.”
Source: A National Survey of Kids (and Their Parents) About Famous Athletes as Role Models
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Gravitons.
Im an intellectual lightweight and have no problem admitting it.
This is a perfect question for an app called “Ask Kanye”, an AI program based on his quotes.
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I dont think it is in my head at all. The entire way youth sports are constructed is to move the best into the pros. Select soccer is the best example of this. And if you see how the average adult participates in sports, it is through passive participation.
Just look at how sports participation is changed throughout life. Kids start out almost only playing sports and not watching sports at all. The enjoyment comes from actually doing it themselves. This changes as life moves on with watching sports taking up more and more until it encapsulates the totality of participation.
Is a singing competition a sport? You have to use certain parts of your body after all?
I am a chemistry professor. You could argue that the entire way the college science curriculum is constructed is to move the best into PhD programs and Med School. The best move on. Why would sports be any different?
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So its a lot.
Please don’t.
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Art is great!
Ive already said this before. Because things like the arts and the sciences end up benefitting society by having the best participate mainly. I dont see how society would benefit more by everyone being a theoretical physicist or mathematician. But with pro sports it is different. Society would improve if the focus of sports was for the every man and woman to improve character and health rather than it being something for the best at sports. So there is this weeding out for no good reason except to make sports into a product for people to consume
Whats wrong with this point?
Id say its outside of the spectrum that we use to define red. It probably appears very close to red but has crossed the border over into orange.
Hollywood role models are just as bad. A society whose heroes are athletes and actors seems like an unhealthy society.
A sport is a technical and athletic competition. Of which gymnastics and figure skating definitely fall under.
You classify auto racing as a sport but not the above? That’s a bit odd.
Something I classify as a game but not a sport - Billiards. Highly technical but not a lot of athletics involved.
Ya so basically its just because we decided were going to say red is here, so it is here.
Auto racing is objective. If you finish first you win. The way art performances are judged are so subjective I dont agree that you can really admit there was a winner and loser between 1st and second place. With auto races one person finished before the other.
My own way to classify sports and games is that you play sprots and compete in games. So basketball is a game and wrestling is a sport. You dont play wrestling. You compete in it. You play football, but you dont play track and field.
Nope. There are very clear differences in the effects of different frequencies along the electromagnetic spectrum.
You think very black and white when everything is in gray somewhere.
The scores given are based off technically perfect execution of highly athletic moves. If everyone is scored by the same set of judges it’s the same as finishing first or scoring more points.
Theres a difference between 650 and 649 but what about that difference makes one red and one not red? Where 650 and 651 are both red?