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Topic: Should boxing be banned?

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Opinion #1
Debater: Ibling
Boxing is a voluntary action by adults
Adults that are deemed rational (i.e. have not been put under the care of others by a duly appointed court) should have the final say in their actions. Such actions may be harmful but the risk is theirs to take, and the decision to engage in (professional) boxing, with all the rewards, is also theirs to take. This goes for all elite sports.

- Boxing encourages fitness and maintaining a healthy body. Thus, the ability of the boxers to attain their goal through determination make boxers god role models.

- Boxing is a way to remove yourself from poverty. For many boxers, the chocie of getting a good education was not open. Instead, sports such as boxing, allow them to advance themselves in society.

- Boxing teaches dicipline. It teaches rules about when (not) to fight and how to fight honourably.

- Boxing violates no-one's rights. Who loses through boxing? The combatants are volunteers, the sport receives no government support. If you don't like it, you don't have to watch
Opinion #2
Debater: SelectSmart.com Staff
Barbaric Boxing Should Be Outlawed Like Dueling & Cockfighting
The great, mercury-like Muhammad Ali was famous for eluding punches. But he didn't elude them all. Ali has been reduced to a Parkinsonian shuffle, his once fast tongue slurred. Practically all the other, more mortal pugilists take a harsher beating that Ali ever did in any of his fights. Over 360 boxers died since 1945. Brain damage and other severe injuries are uncountable.

Boxing should go the way of dueling. Like dueling, the participants in boxing agree to commit acts upon themselves that would be considered crimes in other venues.

Virtually all professional boxers are born into poverty. Like drug dealing, crap shooting, and prostitution, boxing seems like an easy route to quick money, but it is bad choice. Laws protect people from themselves who make bad choices. Because boxers pay a price themselves but so does society in healthcare for old boxers. Other sports have deaths and severe injuries, but they are unfortunate by-products not the intent.
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http://archive.parade.com
http://www.ama.com.au
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