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Originally Posted by BrianD
At the risk of sending this thread on a useful tangent:
I have often wondered if we are on a path to destroy sports in this country...both human and animal. There is so much emphasis on performance, strength and speed that everybody is being pushed to the absolute limit. All of the protective equipment allows people to push even farther. Dogs and horses and bred to be fast and less durable. Football players are pushing themselves so hard that many can't walk by the age of 40. Everything always has to be bigger, faster and stronger. It makes me nervous that we may someday not have sport because we will have trained people and animals past their limits.
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I think sports itself will be okay. Most sports we follow now are 100-200 years old, but sports itself has been around for thousands of years.