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WE HATE SPORTS
Lunchbox:
I don't like sport but no need to get up in everyone's face about it. Just look sheepish when people start talking about sport and you're all good.
Hat:
--- Quote from: Spluff on 29 Sep 2009, 23:19 ---Professional sport is no more ridiculous than professional artists, musicians, actors, or directors - all these people get grossly overpaid for entertainment.
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Depends on whether you think we are still inherently violent animals at our core or not, really. If we are, then sports could be considered culturally cathartic for all the instincts and urges we repress. If not you could argue elevating our sportsmen to high social status encourages violent thuggish behaviour we should have gotten over as a species by now.
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 29 Sep 2009, 22:27 ---Who thinks that the idea that a man who kicks a fucking ball on television can get paid as much as a brain surgeon makes in a year every month or even week to be just the most awful thing.
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Also Brain Surgeons get paid a lot more than teachers and to be honest I think teachers are way more important. So there are a lot of discrepancies out there in pay. Doesn't mean brain surgery isn't worthwhile.
David_Dovey:
Sportspeople can make hundreds of thousands of people happy all at once. Brain surgeons really only make people happy a few at a time.
It's all relative, I guess?
Hat:
on the flipside a sportsperson that makes a hundred thousand people happy at once is presumably making roughly the same amount very unhappy at the same time so the overall benefit to humanity is nil.
David_Dovey:
What if a brain surgeon is operating on an asshole. Keep in mind that most people are assholes.
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