BrightCandle said:
Premediatated manslaughter, a variation of murder, would seem to decribe the deaths of boxers.
And much like your claim that an act not involving murder somehow violates the commandment not to murder, nor is this pre-meditated or manslaughter.
I understand that throwing around legal jargon makes you feel smarter, but when you use it without knowing what you're talking about, it only makes you look...well, not smarter.
After you read the hundreds who have died from boxing, I hope that you will change your view regarding this brutal and barbaric sport.
First of all, no, it doesn't, anymore than Curtis Williams' death changes my view about football or J.D. McDuffie's death changes my mind about auto racing.
There are a couple of problems I have with the list.
The first is that only a small fraction of the fights were sanctioned, with many of them being back room, indepentdant affairs. What rules were used? Were the officials licensed?
The second is that several of them were not boxing matches but were, in fact, "toughman" competitions.
The third is that many of the boxers on the list, in fact, the
majority of boxers on the list, did not die in the ring, but later, in incidences where a head injury from boxing was only
one factor.
The fourth is that the vast, vast majority of these fights are not even from the modern era.
No one is arguing that men do not die in boxing. The great Max Baer killed not one, but
two men in the ring.
But the fact remains, that
all sports, as are many real life occupations, are dangerous.
I can make lists of all of the deaths in other sports, to, as well as deaths to police officers and firefighters (which, statistically speaking, is much more dangerous) but they would suffer from the same logical fallacies that your list does.
