For me it's anything involving cars or horses, also american football, and sumo, how about anything in general that intentionally harms the players health just by playing?
For me it's anything involving cars or horses, also american football, and sumo, how about anything in general that intentionally harms the players health just by playing?
I think wanting to outright ban certain sports is a reactionary mindset. Sports are what the people will do with their time when they've reclaimed it from the capitalists, the only thing that should be done is to reform them.
Golf is cool when it uses the terrain and plants of the area it's located in, and when it's a park that those who live by it all have joint ownership of and access to. Yeah it's an inefficient use of space, but so are parks generally and we want to have those in our better future.
Anything involving animals is more difficult to call. Obviously animal competition in its current form is a breeding ground for cruelty and must be stopped - but animals like to play too, so i think that some kind of amateur setup with strong animal welfare safeguards is possible and preferable to banning those sports outright.
Golf is one of those things like hunting/guns or boating, where your perception is highly colored by where you grew up. I grew up in a place where all of those things were very accessible to ordinary working people (municipal courses in wet climate, lots of places to put a boat in, lots of state hunting land and a strong cabin culture), within reason, so it took me a bit understood the attacks on "beautiful boaters" and such.
I honestly think hunting is more morally justifiable than golf is, as long as it's controlled. I live in an area where nearly all the deer's natural predators have been driven to extinction so the only thing left keeping their population from overrunning the ecosystem is people.
We intentionally drive those predators to extinction though, partially so there are more deer to shoot
Well also because they'll tear you in half if you walk between them and their favorite trashcan
Its super obvious that the doggie obstical course dogs are having a great time. Stuff like that is something that could totally translate into the ~good future~
You'd have to make it like a time share situation for that to work, getting hit by a golf ball is really dangerous
Booking tee-times? There are public golf courses (City-run, still pay but don't need country club membership), the stupid shit is when they make lush grass ones in arizona or california.
If there were Mario-golf style themed courses in deserts it wouldn't be as terrible there either, just sucks because rich people form the area for the golf course instead of the other way around.
Oh duh, that is a thing already isn't it lol