does sport encourage violence?
546294
sport encourages (or ones competitiveness is measured in the degree of effort they put into given tasks)the inborn instinct  for survival for many different reasons. Some people have the inability to off the machine or "put the breaks on \n   Sport is great but we are not encouraging it as much as we should
158164
There's still more good than bad.\n\nI think sports helps kids improve their physical skills, helps them understand teamwork and competition, and being dependable and responsible to your peers.  Additionally, the academic obligations of maintaining a minimum grade standard is powerful motivator.\n\nOn the downside, the almost opressive influence of professional athletes can contribute to a lot of similar behaviors.  There can be far too much emphasis on personal achivement.  Not suprisingly to me, most of that originates from parents.
681373
No, being a body contact sport, it is often accidental.  Players act out of reflex.  But spear tackles should be eliminated and offending players should be banned for life.
1058148
Yeah Definatally..\nBecause It is definately a sport.\nWe compete, practice, and get hurt a lot...\nso yeah it should be on the list.
510558
Its a cross between boxing and chess, in the past you had battles. Today there is rugby. A battle with tactics and physicality, without the chance of being killed. How can that not be fun ?
764249
First of all it is an illegal drug and it hinders the mind in turn increasing aggression and not letting people think rationally during a struggle or fight.  Secondly it does give an unfair advantage in sports.
1049847
no, doesn't have defense, doesn't cause you to sweat/ get tired\n\nthose are charicteristics of a sport
1022801
This is a tough one.  I'm English and very proud of it.  I don't like the idea of hooligans though.  However if someone starts giving me grief, there is no way I will back down.  I guess this is the same for a group of lads who are supporting football.  If you look back in the history of English football there has always been hooligans.  However I believe that the action should be kept on the pitch.  Look at rugby fans, the game is violent and the fans get on great with each other.
703704
Of course there is.   Sport is war.
1176632
Hell no!  The people want to see blood and guts all the time and they are giving the sport of boxing a bad image.  It is a sport!  It's about skills and condition.  And yes; there are some cases of people getting hurt.  But I don't think is intentionally.  Ronald 'Winky' Wright is an example of how boxing should be.
129260
Try serotonin and testosterone, the links to violence.\n\nThis is amazing.
402433
In violent sports they set bad examples for children.\nLike in hockey and wrestling where they promote violence.\nGo to a hockey game and watch a fight.\nGo to a wrestling match and watch a fake fight.
576423
Sports entertainment is different from sports.
11451
Well, I'll start with a personal anecdote.  First game I played in college I had my head stepped on by my own damned scrumhalf, cleats and all, and was knocked out on the field.  I have also personally seen people have their faces cut open by elbows in a ruck, usually right above the eye.  Head wounds bleed quite a bit.  Another injury I have witnessed was from one of the girl ruggers here, who had her ear nearly torn off and then stitched back on. I'm not even bothering to mention the number of broken limbs, sprains, and their ilk. Also, for some statistics on Rugby injuries in Australia, check the link in the source.  \n\nNeedless to say, Rugby is a much more violent sport than Football, and it makes it just that much more fun to play.\n\nEdit:  Forgot to mention spearing, in which during a tackle a player is lifted by his legs and smashed head first into the ground.  It is illegal, but it happens.\n\nEdit:  Well, back in the late 19th century, England alone counted 71 rugby related deaths in three seasons.  I haven't been able to find a recent count, although I know that deaths do occur.  I didn't bother mentioning broken/twisted limbs because they are so common. You know, legs broken the wrong way with the bone sticking out, that sort of thing. I also know from playing that football players can't take a hit to save their lives.  They are too comfortable with all that padding.  You take it away and they break something or have something broken within two or three games.\n\nEdit:  I'm going to keep finding stuff to convince you how awesome the game is!  Buck Shelford had his sack cut open during a game by a boot spike, which left his testicle hanging out.  Doctors stitched him back up and he played the rest of the game.  Link is in the sources.
1065354
Riots are related to football/soccer more than any other sport I know of. I don't agree about the passion of the fans statement above. There is no need for that. It's a group of people with no self control or respect. Rivalry should never be taken to extremes like that. It brings the game down as well as embarrasses the team or country that they represent. What is achieved by all the riots anyway. Nothing but arrests and injuries to other people and so many innocent people get caught in the cross fire. I think they should be ashamed of themselves but they won't be as they don't care.
199005
No human violence should be linked to video games.  If parents are going to let their kids play violent video games, they then have the responsibility to explain to their children the difference between make believe and reality.
561448
There are no views. There are facts, falsehoods, and hypotheses. Violence is a means, not an end; violence and non-violence both have their places. Most violent crimes are the result of dominant temperament. Dominance is a wrongfully self-righteous emotion. Modern media has increasingly advocated dominant and dominant-territorial aggression (e.g. television shows 'cheaters', 'elimidate', daytime talk shows that deal with interpersonal conflicts, and fiction shows that deal with interpersonal conflicts), but, as psychologists have discovered via experiment, aggressive media excacerbates aggression in people that are aggressive to begin with, but does not cause aggression primarily, as aggression is mostly genetic. People of dominant-territorial character are getting more common because they are not dealt with via decisive countermeasures, such as execution, sterilization, and substantial punishments, so as a result, they make lots of babies and increase the number of aggressive offspring... who in turn are encouraged by the aggressive media. We do not kill, sterilize, or substantially punish aggressive people, especially children, because we feel a pleasurable sense of blind permissiveness toward them, and for the same reason we blindly deny the importance of the genes. We choose not to censor the dominant and dominant-territorial aggression in the media because of our own internal aggressive joy. Violent crime has increased because we chose to increase it rather than give up our wrongful pleasures.