Why would personal vehicle ownership stop? The question you have to ask is why people own cars in the first place when they can take a taxi everywhere. They own a car for the simple reason that they can decide to go to the store whenever they feel like it and be on their way immediately and they can reach the store…

Why do people think human choice and control is some bug that we can eventually fix by showing the error of our ways. No humans prefer control as an end in itself not a means to an end. Watching a video game being played saves us more energy but it is not the same as playing the game. I prefer to instinctively circle…

then substitute being born in south sudan with being on WTC building and having to jump off the 70th floor or whatever other tragic possibilities that you cannot protect your child from of which there are many.

If I offer you the following choices which would you take

So I am not naive enough to think coming out as gay takes the same amount of courage as coming out as straight but strictly to answer your questions as to what privatization would look like, the first step would probably be not giving an award for being gay or straight and playing sports.

I agree, her arguments are looney but as far as lunatics go she is fairly self-aware.

No but the difficulty lies in coming up with a schema for understanding which moralities to accept and which to discount that goes beyond "everything I believe we should allow and everything I don't believe we shouldn't allow". This is a problem we still struggle with.

If its a pervasive problem we probably wouldn't need "research"... we didn't need "research" to know there was smoke around the NFL. The research comes after we have reason to believe there is a problem not before. No one is researching NBA because there is no reason to believe the NBA has a problem.

Soccer wasn't invented a few years ago when Americans started caring about it. There is already a large number of ex professional soccer players to study and they don't appear to have any of the problems ex NFL players have. So this recent wave of concern by Americans is simply a case of projecting a problem you have…

so why don't we see a large population of older soccer players with the neurological issues NFL players have? People have been heading balls for a living long before the NFL was born

Exactly ... nothing needs to be done. Sports is by definition dangerous and unnecessary, it doesn't need to perfectly solve every problem inherent in it. In some incarnations of it the point is specifically to repeatedly punch your opponent in the head.... where's the solution for that? People who follow the NFL want…

you are the one that said it is all about money and vacation time. The point is there is very little money in the world cup compared to where they make a living. Also those 2 things are contradictory. You don't make any money while on vacation.

this is the problem with the American perspective, sorry to keep coming back to that. Most of the free world do not see the world cup as an opportunity for any sort of exhibition. Do you see the number of inconsolable players after an elimination game? Travel to Ghana on the day the black stars are bounced out of the…

tribute games are not made for tv spectacles, they usually serve an important cause. Friendlies by pro teams serve the same purpose as preseason games and scrimmages do. An all star game is 100% empty calories and never lives up to the expectations on paper. Players goofing around in training are just as if not more…

I stand by my initial comment.

I want to reply your post but I have no idea what you are arguing for or against. I guess you think I'm saying internationals are not important when I was only saying it is not a significant source of income for players.

the point isn't that they don't get bonuses it is that that is not how they make a living. RVP makes over $20m at United, $30k win bonuses doesn't factor into anything. My original point was that I had no idea why the OP was bringing up money as a criticism of players who allegedly don't want to play the third place…

sorry but no one makes a living playing at the world cup. They make their money paying club football. You're not paying a penny for the world cup and your sense of entitlement is more objectionable than whatever you think the "idiot" players are saying

the article is foolish but I take offense to you insulting the players since none of them said they don't want to play this game and I have no idea why you're taking about what the players are hired to do side they are not employed by the national team. They make their living playing club football.

this is a spectacularly stupid idea