Wtf is the minimum age to become a Thai prizefighter???

Fact & fiction?

Also the fact that karate (even full-contact) is for pussies. Boxing is, OTOH, legit dangerous. I don't offhand know the statistics but I'm guessing the number of cases of Parkinson's or fatalities related to sanctioned karate matches are minuscule compared with boxing. If there are even any.

 

Is it? Or did you just drag in a completely unrelated point thinking you've negated mine with a lazy wave of your hand and some vague whataboutism?

I'd say "nice try", but it wasn't.

 

Bingo. Under adult supervision until they have themselves reached the age of majority & self-determination.

If you leave the door open to kids as young as 14 competing in an unlimited age pool and with loosened regulation where the axiom "protect yourself at all times" and "anything goes (so long as you don't violate the MoQ rules, which were in their day drafted more to serve the interest of a very English stiff-upper-lip sense of "sportsmanship" than fighter safety per se), then something very wrong has occurred... an important boundary line blurred. That slope is extremely slippery. Just because one time it happened to pan out "fine" doesn't mean the next 14 year old won't be literally murdered in the ring by a primed-out monster twice over their senior at 28 years old.

So fundamentally that is what is wrong here. The door being left open for kids being made (or even allowed) to fight adults. Then, speaking to your other point here:

Yes, that exploitation of children factor is one more additional layer of scum-bag creepiness ON TOP OF the already fundamentally wrong thing. So this is a complex issue that is problematic for more than one reason - and while not all of those reasons are equal, that doesn't mean any of them are less than severely alarming.

 

Something that is true and horrible and not germane to anything being discussed here whatsoever.

 

Nobody does that, punk, stop making shit up. I've literally never once banned anyone for that - and like @CST80 mentioned, I'm the only mod that insists on having my cusses visible to full integrity in my posts without spelling alterations or asterisks.

If he could, The Professor would probably ban me every week...and I would keep bypassing the filter, every week. I wouldn't even be mad at him, really, as he's just a force of nature, doing his thing...like you wouldn't get irrationally upset with a shark for taking a bite of your leg if you left it dangling over the boat; just doing its thing. And it would be in my nature to never learn my lesson, and keep bypassing it, and getting banned.

So there's literally no double standard. There is no such thing as one particular mod who tells people not to bypass the swear filter and bans them for it, but also does it himself.

There are the mods that enforce that rule, and there is the one renegade doing his own thing and wantonly getting away with it for as long as he can - but also not banning anybody or telling anyone they shouldn't do it, so not a hypocrite.

This speaks to a broader issue - stop lumping the mods together like we are some large Borg collective unit. We are individuals, each doing his own thing. Cheers.

 

"You can't talk about my problems because you have problems too" isn't a valid argument. That is a deflection, and the laziest & most cowardly way to escape an uncomfortable discourse.

 

, btw @ all these jealous bitches whining about my getting away with using bad words.

"That's unequal treatment!" - yep, because, well, you and I aren't equal. I get a pass because I've earned a pass. I've been here since 2006 and in any single calendar year since have contributed more of value here than all of you whiners ever will, combined. So, kindly eat my ass like good little bluestreak wrasses, until it looks professionally bleached. Thanks.

 

I'm not focusing on the negative aspects of a whole nation. Do you see me discussing anything other than my originally intended thread subject, namely children too young being pushed into professional combat sports? No, you don't. I'm not here to just shit on Thailand indiscriminately. But I will continue to shit on this one cultural practice, because I feel that fourteen is too young and that cultural differences ought not excuse something that is fundamentally, universally wrong.

 

They shouldn't be permitted to make that choice (in the context of professional boxing, not just kids sparring each other with strict observant supervision & without paying audiences) until their bodies & brains are done growing.