{"id":40561,"date":"2012-02-15T11:14:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T19:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40561"},"modified":"2012-02-15T11:30:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T19:30:38","slug":"i-would-never-play-tackle-football-or-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40561","title":{"rendered":"I Would Never Play Tackle Football Or Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think I played tackle football twice in my life, sometime around seventh grade. <\/p>\n

I hate being hurt. I hate getting tackled. I hate pain. I hate the risk of injury.<\/p>\n

Yet I love watching football. I love to see a blitzer tackle a quarterback from behind and just watch his body crumble under the impact. <\/p>\n

I would never box yet I love watching boxing. <\/p>\n

I would never have sex on camera and share it with the world and yet I have often watched people do just that.<\/p>\n

I think the self-destructive nature of engaging in such activity makes it particularly compelling to me to watch it.<\/p>\n

I don’t think I’d ever go to a dangerous place in Afghanistan or Iraq or anywhere just for a news story, yet I love to read the stories of people who do just that.<\/p>\n

I would never want my children to risk themselves in the activities yet I am happy to be entertained and informed by those who freely choose to do so.<\/p>\n

I am generally against the government providing welfare and subsidies yet I am happy to take advantage of such when that serves my self-interest.<\/p>\n

I last played touch football in April 1998. I fell and broke a bone in my wrist that day and have not played since. I avoid roller-skating for similar reasons and any activity that could lead to a sudden fall and injury. I don’t have much calcium in my bones and they break easily.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I write freely about personal details of my life that most people would never share publicly. I have no problem if such people particularly enjoy my work. I want them to read me and it does not matter to me if they’d never say such things themselves. <\/p>\n

As the moral leader to thousands of impressionable young Jews around the world, I have more severe strictures on my behavior than the average guy who’s free to drink and smoke and lend his bum to other blokes.<\/p>\n

Washington Post advice columnist Carolyn Hax writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If you do start (or stumble into) the \u201cshould\u201d conversation, then try approaching it as a true-or-false question: If you believe an industry is so unsafe or dishonorable that you wouldn\u2019t offer up yourself or spouse\/child (real or hypothetical) to work in it, then you shouldn\u2019t use the products of that industry.<\/p>\n

Cool thing is, this works not just for porn, but for meatpacking, contact sports, mining, art, education, pubs, multinationals, politics, you name it. Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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