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?
I think wanting to outright ban certain sports is a reactionary mindset. Sports are what the people will do with their time when they’ve reclaimed it from the capitalists, the only thing that should be done is to reform them.
Golf is cool when it uses the terrain and plants of the area it’s located in, and when it’s a park that those who live by it all have joint ownership of and access to. Yeah it’s an inefficient use of space, but so are parks generally and we want to have those in our better future.
Anything involving animals is more difficult to call. Obviously animal competition in its current form is a breeding ground for cruelty and must be stopped - but animals like to play too, so i think that some kind of amateur setup with strong animal welfare safeguards is possible and preferable to banning those sports outright.
Golf is one of those things like hunting/guns or boating, where your perception is highly colored by where you grew up. I grew up in a place where all of those things were very accessible to ordinary working people (municipal courses in wet climate, lots of places to put a boat in, lots of state hunting land and a strong cabin culture), within reason, so it took me a bit understood the attacks on “beautiful boaters” and such.
I honestly think hunting is more morally justifiable than golf is, as long as it’s controlled. I live in an area where nearly all the deer’s natural predators have been driven to extinction so the only thing left keeping their population from overrunning the ecosystem is people.
We intentionally drive those predators to extinction though, partially so there are more deer to shoot
and when it’s a park that those who live by it all have joint ownership of and access to.
You’d have to make it like a time share situation for that to work, getting hit by a golf ball is really dangerous
Booking tee-times? There are public golf courses (City-run, still pay but don’t need country club membership), the stupid shit is when they make lush grass ones in arizona or california.
If there were Mario-golf style themed courses in deserts it wouldn’t be as terrible there either, just sucks because rich people form the area for the golf course instead of the other way around.
rodeos are inhumane and the people who run them should be gulaged.
Alternate idea: keep the rodeo but we get to watch the organizers get trampled
This would work for one last rodeo, then there would be none left :inshallah-script:
Horse racing
Is Dog Sledding really that bad? Like the non-racing kind, not the long marathon style ones.
I would hope it’d be better with how it’s tied into Inuit culture. Inherently it’s not worse than any other working dog, but I also know nothing about northern dogs physiology. The main thing about dogs in general is how bad the inbreeding gets because of stupid breed standard, but I don’t think people with working dogs care about doing that stuff as much.
I thought Huskies liked to do it, so long as the group isnt pulling anything too heavy
a thousand white faces drinking burbon on a 90 degree day in kentucky yelling at horses to go faster.
can it even be fixed? would it be remotely the same sport? better to just get rid of it probably
How dare you threaten my caveman sport of hitting each other with giant clubs until one of us collapses?!?
Probably true. Unless it become professional touch football. Current football is somehow safer than it used to be FFS.
it definitely can be. rugby is similar and doesn’t have the same head injury problem because the rules mandate wrap up tackles and, ironically, because they don’t wear pads and helmets. the pads and helmets actually made things worse from a TBI perspective.
EDIT: It turns out Rugby does still have a concussion problem. RIP
is that, like, just less fucked than american football, or actually not a problem at all?
for me the ones that potentially harm the players are fine (within reason) if it’s an informed, non-coerced choice by the participant
ones that require a horse can get fucked though
if it’s an informed, non-coerced choice by the participant
Didn’t the NFL and other sports organizations cover up information about CTE risk?
There’s a risk of injury for all physical activity, sports that have an unreasonable risk like American football should be banned. Personally I think anything that has physical contact shouldn’t be played by children. Martial arts maybe the only exception because knowing self defense outweighs the physical injury from the sport itself. Of course we shouldn’t have children training for mma.
