Well, of course boxing should be banned. Whatever municipality is involved has to license the event. We don't license dog fights, or cock fights, and it won't be long, a few decades or less, before we stop licensing boxing matches.
Football is in trouble because as we learn more and more about the brain we realize the danger of the effects the kinds of blows the brain takes during contests like football. How that is countered is being considered right now. Pro football has move in the direction of increasing penalties for shots to the head. Helmets, and other equipment changes, are ongoing. In years to come we may decide that the game will have to be altered too drastically to save it in any form resembling how it is now played. I hope not. I loved football. I liked the combination of working as a team, and the individual effort it allows for. Great sport, but it's in trouble.
Life after death? Ha, ha, I mean look at the words. Life after death. I'm sorry but there isn't a dollop of >REAL< evidence to indicate that death is anything but the end.
You know, the older I get the more I realize how unrealistic people are. And not only that, but how poorly that impacts on the quality of our lives. I see it over and over again with friends of mine. I have friends, my age, who haven't prepared for the hurtles that aging presents. I point this out to them and they just continue along ignoring life's realities. It's a shame. I have a friend that I dated over 40 years ago. She lost her husband a few years ago and we ran into each other 6-8 months ago. But our relationship, which could have been very beneficial to the both of us, has been ruined by her inability to look herself in the eye. She just can't do it.
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