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Trying to identify all my contrarian combos — sets of beliefs that make me insufferable to approx. everybody e.g. kids oughta run free, unsupervised, generating chaos + bruises & possibly requiring an ER trip AND we should ban most kids' organized sports due to concussion risk
I don't think team sports are an adequate replacement for "kid society" (my term for unsupervised, organic kid packs), but I've got nothing against them except insofar as they cause head injuries disproportionately to other things humans can do. All for fixing that, but good luck
What. Just ban football and boxing and ban heading the ball in soccer and you're fine
And hockey, but sure
I think your second "belief" there is a consequence of something deeper. Namely - your first. By "organised" don't you mean compulsory or coerced? We shouldn't coerce (is the moral principle). If we did that, then such "bans" wouldn't be necessary. Indeed they'd *be* coercive!
Sorta? Free play among children doesn't seem to cause as much consistent damage to the head as many team sports, and this may have something to do w/ kids not loving the feel of injuries that cause brain damage & therefore not generating rules that cause that to happen a bunch
a thing about some kids' organized sports, it seems to me, is that it goes beyond casual play into this sort of institutionalized, intensified, accelerated, gamified system that's practically optimized to generate concussions. gotta dampen the incentive(s) to win at all costs
What. Just let the kids play sports that don't involve hitting your head.
You are overestimating concussion risk in most kid's sports. I played basketball, baseball, and soccer and concussions were a non-issue. I did grow up unsupervised and got one major concussion slipping off a rope swing. Organized sports is super helpful for mental health.
yeah which sports have a concussion risk? I've heard football and high-level soccer where kids head the ball a lot (99% of soccer players never execute a header or even try) but have never heard this about anything else.....
These two thoughts seem logically consistent to me. One is advocating that children play freely and of their own volition. The second is saying that maybe we shouldn't put children into socially-sanctioned gladiatorial combat. Those sit together nicely imo.
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