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Edmundson's Use Of Violence In Sports

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Edmundson’s claim that sports create aggressive men who cannot control their action rest upon the questionable assumption that these individual were not initially aggressive. Sports allow for an arena where aggressiveness is not frowned upon, but it doesn’t create something that was not already within an individual. People who have dominating personalities and seek to belittle others will always find a place to do that. The same can be said for a man’s ability to control himself. Men who can control their actions know when to turn off the aggression of the game, on the other hand, men who do not know when to separate the moments do not. Therefore, it’s not the sports fault rather the person. If sports were at fault, all athletes would seek
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