| Well, if you want to get technical, all sports are disruptive to someone, theferfore all sports are uncivilized and pointless, other than to relieve the competitive need in one's body.
If you say that a sport would be "a competitive event with at least two humans involved in the direct outcome of the competition", then wouldn't the show "America's Next Top Model" be a sport?
Anyways, I wouldn't call any true sport (1: physical activity engaged in for pleasure; 2: a particular activity [as an athletic game] so engaged in) disruptive or uncivilized, just because they have the priveledge and money to do it. Even for the disruptive part, the setting for these events are often isolated. But even if they weren't, would you consider building a highway near houses uncivilized?
To me, forcing someone to go into the gladiator dome would be uncivilized. Forcing someone or something (an animal) to compete against their will is uncivilized. But the definition of uncivilized/civilized depends entirely on cultural acceptance. So when you come down to it, since it is culturally accepted, most sports are not uncivilized.
Torture is the gradual elimination of emotions. |