I don't disagree, but for me, since I did not practice team sports, so I got this from my time with scouts.

Still, it's a bit different for the scouts since you will live for extended periods of time together, like 10+ days for the summer outing.

Scout specifically get in to nature, and there are several articles/studies claiming there are positive mental health effects of being in nature, so that (or the the combination of that plus what you were saying) could be part of whats going on.

Not really, playing sports doesn't give the "immersive" experience of spending several days at a time in the back country, sports kit doesn't have the meaning attached to it that a uniform does, etc etc. I was a cadet rather than a scout but even decades later it still shapes my thinking.

I dunno, I dumped the Boy Scouts as soon as I started playing sports. It didn't help that there were legitimate, registered sex offenders involved in the leadership of the local troop. But really it was that it was just easier and more fun to just go out in the back country and do stuff on your own than to put up with all the red tape and bureaucracy and fiddle-frigging around that Scouts entailed.

Yeah, except if you are being bullied and nobody steps in to stop it.

Are you saying that doesn't happen in Scouts? Because that happens in Scouts.

No, I'm not saying it doesn't happen in Scouts. It happened to me whilst I was in Scouts in Australia, but that's several decades ago.