Argumentative Essay: Kids And Dangerous Sports

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As of late, Pop Warner, the world's biggest youth football association, has seen its numbers decrease. This decay is because of worries about new research setting up a connection amongst football and endless traumatic encephalopathy, an incapacitating neurodegenerative ailment. A huge number of guardians are currently battling with a troublesome moral issue: ought to children play football? Since guardians have a commitment to help kids build up the limits required for self-sufficient decision, the dangers postured by football set up a solid assumption against permitting children to play the amusement. I consider whether this assumption can be crushed by the contentions for permitting children to play risky games offered by John Russell in his papers 'The Value of Dangerous Sport' and 'Kids and Dangerous Sport and Recreation'.

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