Taken from JRE #1437 w/Stephen Dubner: https://youtu.be/DETj3ncN19g
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Taken from JRE #1437 w/Stephen Dubner: https://youtu.be/DETj3ncN19g
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The issue is not really the people who choose to fight or drive and get hurt. The issue is the whole industry around it, where some people profit from others getting hurt. Then you get some really perverse incentives.
Could you imagine being in the NASCAR and having a tremendously bad wreck then going through the Halo of healing up and everything then being the race car again
I don't have to tell people not to #$%^ each other up but I am certainly not the one to pay to watch them do it. I will not contribute my energy, time, or money for people to just mangle each other. All the best to everyone!
I mean, we have been through this before Joe. we can look back at the time a hockey goalie put on a mask for the first time… they laughed and ridiculed … but every goalie wears one today…. There is still hockey, you ask your stupid question, and throw your hands up. But there is alot we can do, and we don't have to ask idiots that just throw their hands up and say dumb shit like "regulation" and "safety". Every hockey goalie today would think it's insane to not wear a mask. Don't just throw your hands up immediately and give up. Not addressing the problem …. is part of the problem. There are more people informed now about it and now they can make up there minds, instead of the people profiting off it trying to keep it hushed up. We can also decide what to do going forward.
I know I'm going to get criticized for saying this because it's youtube, but what gives an adult the right to enroll their child in a sport with such high probability for a long-term injury – including, but not limited to, CTE. If you're an adult, you can choose to harm yourself – that I agree with Joe. This right, however, does not extend to children, who have a right to parental guardianship that attempts to protect them from bodily injury, which, in tangible terms, means avoiding activities that have high levels of inherent risk. The objection will be something along the lines of "My kid likes to play football. He chooses it for himself. We're his parents and we love him; So, we support him and his interests and dreams. We would never do him any intentional harm."To which I say, "But you are not actually doing that by allowing him to play such a relatively dangerous sport when there exist so many fun, educational, socially fulfilling, and culturally rich alternatives that come with less inherent risk. Wouldn't it be better if you could somehow lower his odds of suffering from chronic physical pain and cognitive challenges, rather than increasing those odds by not encouraging him to play something so dangerous. The good news is, as parents, we can lower those chances by encouraging our children to choose a different physical activity."