Brain Damage

[Canary42]

They say boxing damages the brain. Seems it's true.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/52082246

[pixie374]

How is that, Roy? Which intellectual asset says that physically beating someone is a useful thing to do?

[andy-hughes]

roy - // Boxers by definition are not unintelligent.

How many boxers have you people with the tar brush met? //

I refer you to the last paragraph of my post at 17:05.

It's not a matter of academic intelligence, as advised, it is possible to be advanced in an academic sense and still possess and act upon psychopathic urges.

I believe that the urge to hurt someone else and call it a sport is fundamentally skewed as a way of thinking.

[ToraToraTora]

AH: "Anyone, from an academic dunce to a university professor, who thinks that hurting other people constitutes sport has something missing in their mental wiring" - that's just another of your own evaluations for someone who does not have the same views as you on any given subject. I'm just pointing out that there have been intelligent boxers as measured, in the case of Nicky Piper, by Mensa. For example I think religious adherents are radio rental but I do accept that, inexplicably, some of them do have a high IQ. You do have a tendency to get on your high horse over people that do all manner of things that you find incomprehensible, that does not mean they are unintelligent.

[Mamyalynne]

Billy Joe Saunders is not representative of all who box, these are his actions and his alone - he has history in this sort of foolishness anyway.

[royfromaus]

DJ's by definition are creepy pervs.

[ToraToraTora]

James "Bonecrusher" Smith had 2 degrees!

[royfromaus]

Have I hit a nerve?

Why can a sweeping statement that is totally untrue be left on here yet one of equally sweeping exaggeration be removed?

[andy-hughes]

TTT - // You do have a tendency to get on your high horse over people that do all manner of things that you find incomprehensible, that does not mean they are unintelligent. //

I agree - I think people who make jokes about domestic violence and serial killers are incomprehensible as well - but as I have already stated twice - sometimes behaviour and intelligence are not actually linked together.

[royfromaus]

I thought you didn't remove posts?

[andy-hughes]

TTT - // James "Bonecrusher" Smith had 2 degrees! //

Good for him.

That doesn't mean that his desire to hurt people for fun and profit doesn't indicate that his mental wiring is crossed somewhere.

[royfromaus]

Once again you are abusing the powers you say you don't abuse

[royfromaus]

You say the same thing every time you go on a removal spree.

[pixie374]

Mods aren't allowed to remove posts on threads they are involved in...
To get back to the thread, I think, ttt, you are only thinking of intelligence as being "academic", which isn't the case. There are lots of types, and at least eight that can be measured. So, it is quite possible for someone to have every degree on earth, while being "stupid" at other things.

[royfromaus]

pixie374
Mods aren't allowed to remove posts on threads they are involved in...



That's not true, Pixie.

[royfromaus]

So you're stupid if you do something that other people do not like?

[pixie374]

Who is that to, Roy? In my view, it is nothing to do with what other people do or don't like.... but suggesting anyone is "intelligent" because they have academic qualifications, is not the whole truth either.
You (I think), said that "by definition" they are not unintelligent. So, I was asking you about that definition?

[andy-hughes]

roy - // So you're stupid if you do something that other people do not like? //

Back to the thread with an excellent example of the 'So' Rule!!!

No-one is suggesting that doing something that anyone does not like renders that person 'stupid'.

The argument is that boxing is not the behaviour of someone who has a sound definition of what is right and wrong about inflicting pain and possible lasting or terminal damage on another human being.

Intelligence - or absence thereof - does not come into it.

[pixie374]

Well... I suspect it comes under emotional intelligence, at least.