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Proper safety would be not having kids put in situations (like a sport where they get tackled by other 200 pound children) where their brain could start swelling as a result.

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Agreed, the mental gymnastics required to defend American football is wild.

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Well, I suppose so, yeah. Some people just like contact sports, and I think they should be allowed to play it if they’re made aware of the risks. Same goes for any other risky activity.

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“But what if the child consents tho?” is not the defense you think it is lmao

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Ah yes, contact sport is totally the same as pedophilia.

What’s your point? You want the adult to consent on their behalf for them to play the game? Sure. That’s probably already a reality, in that if a parent tells their kid they aren’t allowed to play or says it’s too dangerous then a lot of kids would obey their parent. Mine wouldn’t allow me to play rugby without a scrumcap when I was a kid.

If you ban the sport wholesale, people are just going to play it in unsafe deregulated environments. I think that even happened to rugby in Greece at one point.

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