The New Yorker columnist Malcolm Gladwell recently wrote a short article on the link between football and dog fighting, shedding light on the negative effects of head-on collisions in football.
The article, Offensive Play, can be found here
While a very well written piece, at 7 AM while brushing my teeth in the shower, I just had to vent my opinion.
Consider an elephant negligible of its mass
Gladwell flawlessly compared football and dog fighting. It was definitely an interesting read because it only gave the problem and no solution, which gave the reader a chance to fill in the blank and look at the situation from a different point of view. He fully supported his claims and presented more than enough evidence. However, I did not fully support his logic. He believed that dog fighting was the same thing as football; it is not. Dog fighting is cruel because you subject two helpless dogs to mercilessly bite and scratch each other.
Football players do not bite or scratch, and with the salaries of these top paid athletes, they are definitely not helpless. Being a football player is not inhumane, it's a consensual agreement that you will trade your long term well-being for a chance at fame. Unlike dogs, humans can make decisions for themselves. Football players understand the consequences. It is incomparable to dog fighting.
I logically rejected eight pages of work in a short blog post, that shows the depth of the piece.
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