Anyway, I did used to enjoy watching martial arts type sports but now find it simply too brutal and disgusting to find enjoyment out of watching someone destroy another. A healthy society obviously would not enjoy something like mma or boxing.
More should. And push for higher academic achievement as the barrier to entry is much lower.
Putting the onus of good parenting on professional athletes is the same as saying forms make someone fat.
Sports like these have been around for Milennia.
General society likely influences how people parent. Different generation parent differently in general. A nasty society will create nasty people.
People have always been generally shitty to one another. Banning an outlet for some human aggression isnāt likely to improve that.
Also, in general, society is full of a bunch of morons. And every group of morons thinks their specific affinity bias group is the correct one.
Then its been sick for a long time. Civilization of course has been built off of conquest so its not a surprise. But it is obviously disgusting how people cheer when a fighter gets knocked unconscious in a sporting fight. Imagine a father whos two sons are fighting in a sporting fight. If the father cheered when his son kicked out his other son, would anyone have any reservations about saying that father is sick? Yet society gets a pass when we see members of our own society destroy others.
Or as some science posits, competing in bouts of physical prowess in no different than two bucks locking horns for mating rights to the nearest for. Itās all to win over the opposite gender in hopes of mating with them.
Thats interesting. But what about when two married men are competing against each other?
Now thats pretty interesting.
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Simple. One is trying to assert dominance over the other.
Generally also a reason men compete at anything.
Sounds very social darwinian. Not sure how much I believe that as an explanation. The love of the sport and wanting to excel seems a simpler answer. And since society sees being excellent as being the best, its not good enough to be very good but 2nd place. To be excellent you need to be the best. How many people participate in sport just because they want to dominate another man? If the love of the sport isnt there, its not going to happen.
I competed in bodybuilding over three decades. I loved the sport. It took many attempts to even place in a contest. Sure, I would love to dominate the competition. What competitor wouldnāt? It sure feels nice to crush the competition, though I would say I might have just scored a little higher than the rest of the competition when I won.
IMO, you do not possess the heart of a competitor. You do not understand competitive sports from the competitorsā view.
I personally just see it as utterly meaningless. All the important memories I have from participating in sports have to do with either individual achievement, or the time I spent with my friends. I did care in the past about winning and losing but now can see that it meant nothing. Im sure that if you used to compete in sports too that you used to get very invested in the winning or losing. Dont you now see how all your wins or losses didnt really mean anything? There were likely things that happened in your sporting life that did matter though, and they were probably something that went beyond winning.
āheart of a competitorā
What does this mean. Its fun to compete but it seems unhealthy to find some sort of intense joy in dominating others. Just imagine the person who tells his community that he feels good when he can see that he is superior to them.
You wouldnāt understand.
IMO, your thoughts parallel and are responsible for the decline of the male of our species.
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So would you say that all your wins and losses when you were 12 actually mattered? Did your high school athletic career wins and losses really matter?
Oh please, you are being ridiculous now with these insults. What are you saying? That if more men watched the NFL and NBA the world would be better?
So my thoughts are bad? Are you saying that if all men focused more on dominating their neighbors that the world would be better? That is the ideal man? Just always concerned with dominated everyone else. I feel like a better world would come from men wanting to help each other, but I guess thats just crazy talk.
You are not talking to me. I have no recollection of wins and loses when I was 12. I just did what kids do. We played pickup ball. We had fun.
My high school athletic career was next to non existent. Try someone else.
I am saying you sure aināt it!
Could you describe your idea of the ideal man.
The weeding out creates a more entertaining product to watch. It provides a better example of pure athleticism and teamwork to aspire to. Pro sports absolutely ARE to see who wins the Superbowl. That doesnāt prevent recreational sports from occuring. Why canāt I watch the NBA and still play pickup games in the neighborhood? I donāt have to play against LeBron to get the benefits of playing.
Isnāt art supposed to be art for itās own sake? Why arenāt you whining about the commercialization of art?