Estimated cost of 2028 Los Angeles Olympics jumps to $6.9B

Re:Estimated cost of 2028 Los Angeles Olympics jumps to $6.9B by Consultant32452 on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @01:39PM (#19799590)

Cross cultural humanitarian bonding is more important than any medical or technological breakthrough. It might be nice if regular people bonded over rockets, but they don't. They bond through sports. Because of this, international sports competitions go a long way towards softening some of humanity's worst tendencies: racism, sexism, and xenophobia.

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Re:Estimated cost of 2028 Los Angeles Olympics jumps to $6.9B by moogly on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @06:14PM (#19802202)

In my eyes, sports reinforce/exacerbate those things. Hooliganism, violent riots, murdering players making own goals, murdering referees doing the wrong (or right) call... I really don't think sports brings out the best in humanity. At best it's a replacement for jingoism.

Rockets don't make people punch other people in the face. Sports really do.

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Re:Estimated cost of 2028 Los Angeles Olympics jumps to $6.9B by Consultant32452 on Thursday May 02, 2019 @01:48AM (#19805090)

Rocket technology is a weapons delivery system.

Rank and file people seeing the world come together and work towards a common goal, even on something as "trivial" as a game, humanizes those different people. And yes, it sometimes results in an occasional fight, but it's much better than the kinds of fights that occur which involve rockets.

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Re:Estimated cost of 2028 Los Angeles Olympics jumps to $6.9B by gspetr on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @08:49PM (#19803375)

> international sports competitions go a long way towards softening some of humanity's worst tendencies: sexism

Sexism? I hope you do realize that you are actually defeating your own argument here, since women are segregated and compete separately.

Trans-men, who were not even top athletes among biological men, already dominate biological women's competition.

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Re:Estimated cost of 2028 Los Angeles Olympics jumps to $6.9B by tastygreenapple on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @07:02PM (#19802549)

Rank order these two by what would most benefit humanity:

* two people of different ethnicities holding hands

* cold fusion

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Re:Estimated cost of 2028 Los Angeles Olympics jumps to $6.9B by Consultant32452 on Thursday May 02, 2019 @01:44AM (#19805078)

I think creating a world in which humans are less inclined to kill one another is more important than increasing our energy supply. We're not exactly lacking in energy as it stands.

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Re:Estimated cost of 2028 Los Angeles Olympics jumps to $6.9B by tastygreenapple on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:34PM (#19812579)

How do you propose we create a world in which humans are less inclined to kill one another?

Need I remind you we discovered fusion to kill people?

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