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A promotion in West Virginia is hosting a child boxing fight involving nine-year-olds.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, if we're going to keep pretending that dancing around and slugging each other is a "sport," then it makes sense to have children play it, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, it is a sport. I have no idea whether it's good for young children to be doing it though... Isn't there a lot of CTE risk?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Somewhat, though I generally believe that some forms of freedom are appropriate for adults that aren't for children. For fighting, I think adults have a better chance of understanding the long-term consequences than kids and thus it's more immoral to let children do it.