re: #102 palomino

Maybe that’s because the stakes are a little higher in war. And at least some of the time, the wars we fight are necessary.

What kind of responsible parent wouldn’t at least think twice about their kid playing football, given all the recent medical data showing traumatic brain injury along the lines of, in some cases worse, than what boxers experience.

And a long boxing career is often referred to as the “equivalent of banging your head against a brick wall 100,000 times” over the course of a decade or two. (Admittedly not the most scientific description, but the results in some boxers as they age are pretty clear.

Its worse considering that the decades of research into safety equipment to prevent direct injuries like broken bones and such have allowed athletes to actually hit each other with a lot more force than their predecessors, meaning the kind of long term trauma we see now is much worse than in previous generations.