What's the problem with sports? Everyone is good at something and not good
at many other things, if you can throw a football but cannot do engineering
work then go play sports. You can argue about how society values
professions, but I can't see why people cannot do what they are good at and
make a living at it whatever it is. Ever think people want to be sports
stars because every other profession has no job security and pays shit? I
think kids going into engineering are stupid, they cannot make a living at
it in the US same with programming and quite a few other brainy jobs. At one
point in our history engineers, programmers, doctors and lawyers all pretty
much made the same money and had the same respect, which of those 4 make the
money now?
So a kid died from a baseball, big deal. Kids die every year from being
kids, always has been this way. If concussions were not that big of a
problem we would probably know less about how the brain works then we know
now. If all you teach kids is to never do anything they might get hurt
doing, you might as well kiss off any human progress from now on. Some
things that are unknown can be risky. Marie Sklodowska Curie died from
complications of radiation, but her work on radioactivity advanced human
kind quite a bit. Its a good thing Columbus discovered America because his
calculations on the route to India were so far off that he would have died
without hitting land that he didn't know existed (screwing up has benefits
as well).
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From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
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Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 3:53 PM
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On Dec 18, 2010, at 2:12 PM, ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
Oh, don't get ms started...
How many hundreds of years will it be before
we, as a society,
outgrow the whole "sports" thing?
Far too many years, that's alL I can say :=-( I am convicned such things
cause brain damage.
This is not in dispute. There's been a lot of media coverage here
recently about (in particular) football players and concussions. And just
two weeks ago, a youngish boy was struck and killed by a baseball during
practice. Tragic. He'd still be alive if his parents had encouraged the
pursuit if something a little more...you know, "evolved".
India and China are now eating our lunch in terms of technological
development and progress, due in part I'm convinced to our teaching of
sports rather than science and engineering (or really ANYTHING else) in our
colleges.
And you know, India and China really have EARNED that lunch, and we
deserve to have it taken away.
It makes me sick.
FWIW, I have never taken part in any sporting activity
or anything
related. I have never watched any sporting activity or anything related.
And I never intend to do either.
Same here. "Playing ball" was fun when I was about five years old. After
that, well, not so much.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
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