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Originally Posted by Textcritic
This isn't akin to "wrapping everyone in bubble wrap." This is about ensuring quality of life for professional athletes after their retirement from sport. It is about protecting our kids from avoidable potentially mortal danger, and from permanent disability.
This is a really serious issue. My son plays high school rugby and one of his teammates will likely never play sports again, will now not be able to pursue a career in the military like he had hoped, and very realistically will not manage to gain entry into university. All of this because of a serious concussion he suffered on the field in a game last year. This is SO much different than protecting kids from broken bones, hurt feelings, or moral purity.
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There is no way to play any kind of contact sport or even most non contact team game that doesn't involve some concussions, nor riding a bike or skateboarding or driving or rock climbing.
You get concussion in basic training as well, you get them from falling down stairs after you get drunk at your 65 birthday at the legion (my grandad) or breaking a horse in your 70's (my father in law, tough old coot).
Their is no way to prevent concussions, now should we ban some sports intirely as they have an almost certain risk of concussion? I'd say no as I like hockey and football and there is no way to make them safe, no mma or boxing either.
But that is a reasonable argument.
But make no mistake, there is no way to make hockey safe, ultimately this ends with no hockey.