For me it’s anything involving cars or horses, also american football, and sumo, how about anything in general that intentionally harms the players health just by playing?

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For me it’s anything involving cars

Boooooooooooo :PIGPOOPBALLS:

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Motorsports are unquestionably lame, but I’m not sure that’s a sufficient reason to ban them. Lots of sports are lame.

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Motorsports use fossil fuels, until sufficient electronic vehicles are made (ignoring the embodied carbon in making them) there isn’t really a place to be burning fuel for fun like that

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I don’t know, I think the amount of fossil fuels used specifically for motor sports is pretty small relative to the number of people they entertain and they are not the reason we have a climate crisis.

If you want to go down the list of marginal emission luxury activities that we should eliminate, like you’ll be eliminating a lot of much more basic luxuries like having access to food that can’t be grown within like 1000km of you and shit before you get to like ten guys trying to go around a track as fast as possible.

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My hatred of motorsports has less to do with the fossil fuels and more to do with the amount of land racetracks occupy. Shit can be worse than a golf course.

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Motorsports are great imo. Simracing is very fun, and that has gotten me into watching motorsports, which are very fun to watch. If ultimately everything moved over to electric though (looks like it will in the coming years), that would be fine.

Motorsports though ultimately don’t burn a significant amount of fossil fuels compared to the larger population. I don’t see why it should be banned now, we should focus on changing infrastructure

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