- There is proof that playing football causes brain injury. (CTE)
- Colleges claim to have the goal of developing brains with knowledge and useful skills.
See the Problem there? That is just the surface.
- Supporting a violent sport that is known to injure people is morally suspect.
Malcolm Gladwell points out the hypocrisy in people who support football, but say dog fighting is ‘wrong’:
…you take a young, vulnerable dog who was made vulnerable because of his allegiance to the owner and you ask him to engage in serious sustained physical combat with another dog under the control of another owner, right?
Well, what’s football? We take young boys, essentially, and we have them repeatedly, over the course of the season, smash each other in the head, with known neurological consequences.
And why do they do that? Out of an allegiance to their owners and their coaches and a feeling they’re participating in some grand American spectacle.
They’re the same thing. And the idea that as a culture we would be absolutely quick and sure about coming to the moral boiling point over the notion that you would do this to dogs and yet completely blind to the notion you would do this to young men is, to my mind, astonishing.
Check out the crazy-hair dude on GPS:
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/24/gladwell-college-football-an-inhumane-spectacle/
