Sports
Is an interest in sports reserved for those of lower acumen with regards to interest in the nature of reality? (My tongue and cheek way of suggesting those who might be interested in topics such as philosophy or science very likely have no interest in something like football). I’m not being too serious, although part of me does think there’s something to that.
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And I think there have been several American writers of literary fiction, intellectual types, who've been into baseball.
Maybe when people are young they split into nerds and jocks (to use the American parlance). Those who like computers and books maybe don't play sports much. But later, when the nerds have gotten over their teenage traumas, they feel free to take an interest in sport.
I doubt it. I played football, basketball, baseball, and soccer growing up nearly every year. I’m also interested in philosophy, and social sciences in general. There’s actually a lot of strategy involved in game planning, schematics, etc. in football at the professional level. It isn’t uncommon for coaches to have somewhat of a background in logic or analytics.
Do martial arts count as a sport?
Actually, there is much relevance of sports to philosophy. Right now as I speak there is a debate going in American football about the “fake slide”: when a quarterback, instead of passing or handing off, runs the ball himself, and, during the run, when he sees he is about to be tackled, instead of sliding to a halt and being down, fakes the slide, fools the defender, and runs around him...
...Now, I don’t know how much you know about American football, but when the quarterback slides you’re not supposed to hit him—it’s one of those modern rules to protect a vulnerable player’s head. So he’s supposed to slide, and you’re supposed to respect that...
...but what if he takes advantage of your respect and disrespects it by a fake and then runs around you for a touchdown?...
...lotsa ethical considerations here!
Sports and Kardashian's ass are good ways to resolve social conflicts. It is unlikely that a person attached to her television will take to the streets to demand rights or justice.