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PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I feel like they’re different orders of magnitude. Like it’s one thing to enjoy watching people do risky things, and it’s another to enjoy watching something where at least one person is going gruesomely die in front of you during the event.

Like… During the Bad Times of NASCAR, a few people would get seriously injured or die in a season, and it caused a huge commotion where they introduced new safety measures (eventually).
But cars were smashed and torn apart nearly every race.
It’s be like if in a typical game of football, there was greater than 50/50 odds that someone would get drawn, quartered, and disemboweled on the field during the match.

But that’s not really the part I was focused on, that was an afterthought.
The real focus was imagine if people jogged at such speeds that tripping would result in gruesome death. What would society even look like?

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