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Originally Posted by Jay Random
This is only relevant if you believe that since some constraints are justified, therefore any and all constraints are justified.
Would it be justified, for instance, to forbid people to eat plums because the stones are a choking hazard? I don't think any reasonable person would agree with that. You have not done the work to show that a fighting ban in hockey falls into the category of reasonable rather than unreasonable restraints.
I happen to agree with your conclusion in this particular instance, but you need to sharpen up your argument. Otherwise you are merely preaching to the converted, and you may even deconvert a few of those.
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I'm not making the argument that all constraints are justified. I was responding to someone saying that "Telling them how to live their lives is another thing." Society places reasonable constraints against all of us. The other poster was suggesting that anything where someone is being told how to live their life, is unreasonable. I was countering that.
As for doing the work, the number of deaths and what is known about CTE is sufficient for me, relative to the lack of importance fighting has in hockey to conclude fighting should be banned.