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Blows to the head have been illegal in football for many years, and it's one of the few sports that requires a helmet. Basketball, which is no less physical of a sport and is played on hard wood rather than grass, has no such requirement.
Unless you just assume that all exercise of any kind must invariably lead to mental decline - in which case, fine, go ahead and lead your sedentary life, fatty.
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All the middle school kids not only think they'll be the ones winning the NFL lottery ten years hence, but also that they'll be among the few retirees with no ill effects a decade past that.
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" I can see that the respondents believe they have been diagnosed. " What a prick.
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Or as my Dad always says "Guilt. It's the gift that keeps on giving."
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Nah, in that case you are most likely "The Shape" or Hannibal Lecter or a housecat.
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Father said that since it's been decades since my last Confession, any sins I may have committed during that time would also be forgiven, I don't even have to list them.
That was cool.
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That, or making a mint in finance.
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In trying to sell a memoir and shorter works though, I will admit that stories of guilt (going to rehab, making a change "for the better") will be more likely published than "living without shame". It's just a huge cultural buy-in that has created the stagnancy in which we now live.
But, in the end, self-control does matter, because it can compensate for a lack of guilt. If you have neither? Well, you're probably just a lost cause. Thank you so much Ann Landers.
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I think guilt only does its best work when the fear of feeling guilty actually prevents people from doing things that they should not do (and by this I mean things that are clearly criminal, like murder or assault or robbery, or clearly socially deleterious, like treating the elderly like shit, driving like an asshole, things like that). In other words, when guilt is working properly as a form of social cohesion, people will rarely experience the feelings associated with it.
One can probably judge the pointlessness of a form of guilt by how often it is experienced by people. The more it's experienced, the less effective, and probably the less socially beneficial it is. So basically, all the religious and sexual guilt in Western society is pointless.
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@skt.smth: Seriously.
But first, for 60 seconds after the toy broke, the psychologists recorded every reaction as the toddlers squirmed, avoided the experimenter’s gaze, hunched their shoulders, hugged themselves and covered their faces with their hands.
These all sound like behaviors that would be exhibited, if the kid was expecting or anticipating parental punishment and not just some internal thing, they might do to themselves.
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