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"Sports is to war as pornography is to sex." — Jonathan Haidt


Except that the universal adoption of sports would result in a net positive. The same cannot be said for pornography.

Also it makes just as much sense like this: 'sports is to sex as pornography is to war.'


It's easy to miss the point of any analogy if you try hard enough.


> Except that the universal adoption of sports would result in a net positive. The same cannot be said for pornography.

By adoption of sports, do you mean universal participation or spectation?

The former I suppose would be a net positive, if you limit the requirement to just making sure everyone does at least some physical activity every day, but if you mean that everyone should be required to play some sport as a significant pastime the negatives start reducing the net positive.

If the latter, I must vehemently disagree. We would probably be better off banning spectator sports entirely rather than making everyone watch.


Just a quick way to say that I think a little exercise goes a long way :)


Presumably that is because war is bad and sex is not bad?


I think it referes to the spectactle aspect of sports




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