When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing

Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by Lewton on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:33AM (#17540763)

I don't think there's any particularly good reason to believe that giving tribalism an outlet through sports is healthy. It might as well be that giving tribalism an outlet leads to more tribalism. Kind of like how expressing emotional anger might make you angrier[0]

[0] https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102344...

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by vanderZwan on Monday July 16, 2018 @09:26AM (#17541072)

Play-fighting is different from real fighting, though.

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by moretai on Monday July 16, 2018 @11:19AM (#17541964)

Yeah people don't die. But there's a chance that energy gets dispensed through other forms. I mean there is so much money in sports. There is so much money in just exerting dominance. So much to gain. Notoriety. Plus, I can't even begin to imagine the mental destruction that goes on in these players. Depression, Ego Inflation to the point of psychosis. Why can't we transcend domination and go back to play?

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