Re:Art prodigy poses 'ethical nightmare' for parents
by RegEx on Sunday July 21, 2013 @10:52PM
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You know, adults actually PLAY sports for...you know, FUN...
Re:Art prodigy poses 'ethical nightmare' for parents
by kunai on Monday July 22, 2013 @12:33AM
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Fun to me is reading novels, or solving puzzles, or doing unit tests, or going to Project Euler and trying to solve as many conundrums as possible with 8 cups of strong coffee and 5 hours in the dark of night. Fun to me is listening to jazz while sitting with a calculus textbook, trying to learn integration, or spending long hours on Wikipedia reading up about category theory after getting obsessed with Haskell.
Am I weird? Probably.
Re:Art prodigy poses 'ethical nightmare' for parents
by ekianjo on Monday July 22, 2013 @12:45AM
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Probably you are not too weird in the HN crowd. I can relate with what you do :) That is why there is such a great community here.
Re:Art prodigy poses 'ethical nightmare' for parents
by RegEx on Monday July 22, 2013 @09:30AM
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Your hobbies are awesome, and I'm being sincere. I was merely addressing this statement made in response to the claim that sports is a common bonding activity:
> Huh? You mean like these people behaving like apes in these modern-days arenas, yelling at 20 people running on the grass and hitting drums while drinking beer?
The implication was that the only bonding obtained through sports was through spectating obnoxiously, while many people enjoy playing sports together.
Re:Art prodigy poses 'ethical nightmare' for parents
by kunai on Monday July 22, 2013 @03:01PM
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Point taken, and I agree. I like to watch baseball sometimes, but I took issue with people who implied that children should be brought up with sports as a cornerstone of their lives whether they like it or not.
Re:Art prodigy poses 'ethical nightmare' for parents
by megablast on Monday July 22, 2013 @01:47AM
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I do all of those things (well, I already know integration), but I also love playing all sports, cycling running, triathlons. I am not sure what point I am making, then I am not sure what point you were making.
Re:Art prodigy poses 'ethical nightmare' for parents
by ekianjo on Monday July 22, 2013 @02:27AM
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I think what he is saying is that there are multiple ways to have fun and to socialize, and there sports is not a mandatory activity for that purpose (that was the point of the discussion a couple of posts above).
I call BS on this. Sports as a way to socialize? As a kid I saw that sports were just another way to bully other kids or ridicule them, or call them names. I never ever saw sports as having any kind of positive aspect on the ones who were already ostracized by their peers.
And who are you to say that kids "Should" do this or that? Why don't you leave out the choice to the kids or the parents in that matter? As for me, I learnt much more by spending time on computers as a kid than joining sports clubs during the weekends.
> Also like it or not, especially for men, sports is a common bonding activity even when you get into adult life.
Huh? You mean like these people behaving like apes in these modern-days arenas, yelling at 20 people running on the grass and hitting drums while drinking beer ? Yeah, what a great way to socialize. I avoid people interested in these sports altogether, and my social life does not suffer from it. You just end up with different people.