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Post by Liverpool on Sept 23, 2011 15:45:52 GMT -8
*scratches head* Not sure if your serious. I can name a number of sports off hand which use not protection at all. Most of which are full contact. Even Rugby, pretty sure they only wear gum shields and thats a very full contact sport. Do kids take part in that in their spare time?
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Post by Brandon Blaylock on Sept 23, 2011 16:19:42 GMT -8
general of Justice When I was a kid I used to wrestle and fight with my best friend. We didn't pull punches and we didn't wear pads and we mostly fought dirty and got angry. We fought because it was fun and we thought it would help us if we ever got into a fight with someone who wasn't a good friend. The point of this sport is to develop a mix of competition, discipline, and physical skill in young kids. These are generally considered positive things. Also, this sort of training has been happening for a long time without ill affects in Thailand ( www.horizonmuaythai.com/Muay%20Thai/children_boxing.html ), China ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaolin_Kung_Fu ), and probably elsewhere. If your counterpoint is that cage fighting is dangerous due to risk of injury, I would agree. However, is risk of injury a legitimate deterrent in all activities(to borrow Martyn's arguement)? And how much risk is necessary for us to say that an activity is too dangerous for children? I would suppose that the line we draw with regards to risk of injury is not well defined and not something that most people would agree on.
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Post by Renegade on Sept 23, 2011 19:35:41 GMT -8
Do kids take part in that in their spare time? Yes O.o and rugby is more dangerous than the sort of wrestling the kids in this article were taking part in.
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