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Topic: Should boxing be banned?

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Opinion #1
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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Opinion #2
Debater: Axismaster
Boxing is a classic sport which people choose to play
Nobody in recent times has ever forced anybody to box. Boxers sign waivers nowadays, and are very aware that it could be detrimental to their health. They also know how miserable they would be if some jerk just went and took away the sport they loved.

Boxing is true entertainment, if you want to live in a world where sports are safe, go out to Idaho and take part in a trout fishing competition, if not, almost all sports carry some sort of risk. If they banned boxing, it would just lead to a slippery slope, they would just ban wrestling, then hockey, then football, then everything else.

To ban boxing would be absolutely dictatorial. It would be just another example of the government telling us that they always know best and we can't even think for ourselves. I am sick of stupid laws like this, and a ban on boxing would be prime, grade A, examples of such. If you have a problem with boxing, it is your problem and you can take care of it for yourself by not getting in the ring.
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