“The Olympics are a representation of the past,” D’Souza said. “They’re rooted in ancient Greece, and they have this amateurish, natural ethos that is run by a bunch of European aristocrats. The Enhanced Games are very different. They’re run by capitalists, who believe in the future, believe in science and technology.”
I mean, they could just choose to not participate. Especially now that it’s still new, if they can’t get many (or any) top athletes to participate, it will likely flop.
And if someone does choose to participate, well, they are free to risk their lives for a few million more imo. At the end of the day, these people are paid ludicrous amounts of money to run in circles or jump or throw stuff. Not exactly an essential job and easily replaced by another goon desperate for their five minutes of fame. It would be sad if they got hurt, sure, but they bring it upon themselves by being in that industry in the first place.
Of course it’s their choice, and we structure society around rewarding and honoring them for it. Give up your life for my weekend entertainment. Another young black man has brain damage from trying to escape the ghetto, pass the nachos. Did you SEE what Hannah Montana did at the Grammies?! UGH I can’t believe Brittany shaved her head!! Another star has a psychotic break, maybe they’ll do a crossover with BTS!
It’s not the idols who disgust me about modern culture… it’s YOU. Who condones it.
Squid Game is also an amazing idea that we should allow. After all, they are freely choosing to participate, so what’s the harm?
Never watched it but what you wrote felt wrong so i checked and:
So they didnt know what they were signing up for which makes it completely different from these enhanced games.
Dont get me wrong, i also find this stupid and dangerous, but people are indeed absolutely free to choose here and there is zero pressure for anyone to participate.
Maybe you should watch it before saying I’m wrong. Yes, they don’t know during the first round that losing means death, but after that they vote to go home. After being confronted with the hopelessness of their lives they choose to come back and go on playing, knowing they’ll most likely die.
It’s an essential plot point, and really what defines the show.
I don’t know what Squid Game is, but we let people do things like cave diving, wingsuit flying, and free solo climbing too. I doubt you’d advocate banning those either.
The difference is doing it for yourself vs. doing it for the entertainment of others. Everyone is free to take performance enhancing drugs for themselves, they shouldn’t be free to take them for a literal festival.