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Prizefighting

  • Boxing

Nature

What distinguishes boxing from most other sports is that causing hurt and injury is its very aim. It is also the result. Medical evidence shows that repeated blows to the head endured by boxers produce cumulative and irreversible brain damage.

Claim

Violence is the vested interest of boxing. The noble art of self-defence consists of deliberately attempting to inflict brain damage on an opponent.

Counter-claim

Boxers not only voluntarily enter the boxing ring, but increasingly know exactly the risks they are taking. How can a society that allows smoking, drinking and pollution condemn an individual choice of occupation ?

Broader

Cruel sports
Presentable

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Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Recreation » Combative sports
  • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    E8766
    DOCID
    11587660
    D7NID
    167141
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020