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Olympics is a waste of money and resources. it should be banned forever.
I like how it brings countries together to play games with each other. It’s better than the alternative. I want to read about Japan destroying China in sports , not literally. Or are you just butthurt because your country is losing?
Olympics is a waste of money and resources. it should be banned forever.
It's not since it can be a great source of pride for people to see their nation represented by their best athletes. It's a display of the best humanity has to offer in the areas of physical endeavor, discipline, and endurance. Reducing everything's value to a function of its consumption of money and resources is a depressing and inhuman way of viewing the world and thankfully most people don't think this way. We're n…
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People always have those rights, no matter where they live, their religion, their cast or what not. That's the definition of Universal. However, they are sometimes not respected and it's the duty of the international community to lobby against the perpetrators especially when they took the moral engagement to recognise them officially. It not the wild west, there are voluntarily agreed upon international treaties tha…
> People always have those rights, no matter where they live, their religion, their cast or what not. Many people do not have these rights. This cannot possibly be a surprise to you? > That's the definition of Universal. We know. That's why they aren't universal rights. > However, they are sometimes not respected If you live under an authority that doesn't think you have these rights, then you don't have them.
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> People always have those rights, no matter where they live, their religion, their cast or what not. Many people do not have these rights. This cannot possibly be a surprise to you? > That's the definition of Universal. We know. That's why they aren't universal rights. > However, they are sometimes not respected If you live under an authority that doesn't think you have these rights, then you don't have them.
Of course I do, even under a Human Right violating regime. Human Rights transcend local authorities. And this authority would be both wrong and illegitimate if it has endorsed those Rights by ratifying a treaty that defines them, and somehow doesn't "belive" in them as you put it.
If someone the other side of the world tells you that you have the right to freedom of religion, but the authority you live under disagrees, and the people on the other side of the world don't do anything about it, then in what sense do you have the right?
You don't - it's meaningless.
If I say I have decided that you have the universal inalienable right to beer, but where you live doesn't agree, and I don't do anything about it either, then have I really given you that right? Of course not.
I think what you're saying is that you think people should have these rights. Great. But they don't in practice, and so they aren't universal.
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We shouldn't have sports where you can increase your chances of winning by increasing your chances of becoming a quadriplegic or getting killed. Whether or not Biles should have pulled out of competition is moot, because her event(s) shouldn't exist in the first place.
Most (all?) sports increase the risk of injury when increasing the chance of winning. Running faster, jumping higher, etc... all increase the chance and severity of injury.
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> Olympics has 339 events, each with a gold, silver, and bronze medal. Many events are team-based too, where every team member gets a medal.
Very good point. I don't really watch sports and 339 was the best representitive number I could find for total medals awarded. I imagine if you knew how many medals were team based, the fixed sizes of teams that get medals, and so on you could work this out more accurately then.
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it is much cheaper than holding the same kind of contest between nations in the form of a war.
cheaper to conduct at same stadiums every year
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Of course I do, even under a Human Right violating regime. Human Rights transcend local authorities. And this authority would be both wrong and illegitimate if it has endorsed those Rights by ratifying a treaty that defines them, and somehow doesn't "belive" in them as you put it.
This is a bizarre kind of double-think. If someone the other side of the world tells you that you have the right to freedom of religion, but the authority you live under disagrees, and the people on the other side of the world don't do anything about it, then in what sense do you have the right? You don't - it's meaningless. If I say I have decided that you have the universal inalienable right to beer, but where you…
The vocation of tyrants is to have their head cut at some point, more or less figuratively.