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It’s because the author isn’t an independent, rational thinker and still hasn’t realized that.

You aren’t a slave to your current social setting. For instance, sports. There are far more than football and ultimate. Kind of irrational to stop at 2?

Here’s some help. Sailing. Soccer. Baseball. Softball. Tennis. Golf. Basketball. Table tennis. Badminton. Rock climbing. Bicycling. Trail running. Cricket. Swimming. Diving. Fishing. Roller blading. Dancing. Martial arts. Boxing. Bowling.

The author doesn’t realize that football even at 150lbs is dangerous. Try flag football.

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That was partly the point he was making. When selecting a sport, he immediately gravitated to sports that are popular with tech people (i.e. ultimate, rock-climbing).

Because he or she wasn’t thinking rationally. He or she was just using their sheep brain.

You’re the one thinking irrationally. You’re completing missing the poster’s point.

No. I know the poster’s point. It’s argued badly. The poster is trying to argue that tech is a monoculture using their perspective as a lens. The author instead looks like a sheep and doesn’t notice all the other tech that are not like them.

The real problem is lack of rationality.

Well, shit. I just started rock climbing. Like half the other tech workers in my city.

Who said try one?

When you actually go out and climb rock/snow/ice (as opposed to plastic) number of tech folks falls dramatically (although still non zero)

Depends how far you're going Castle Rock, the few climbs in the Berkeley hills, or even the Mt Diablo area is full of of tech folks (myself included).

I was going to say I rock climb in Victoria, Australia but I've never met anyone in tech!

“The author doesn’t realize that football... is dangerous.” You really missed his meaning when he said “I don’t like traumatic brain injuries.” What he meant was that he had no interest in playing football because it’s dangerous.

Haha. Yes, but there is football... and then there’s futbol (ie soccer).

Flag football is non contact. Just like ultimate that the author was considering.

Contact football even if restricted to people 150lb and below is STILL dangerous. It’s not the weight disparity which is partly how I read that. It’s that the force that even 120lb people generate is enough to cause concussions amongst people the same weight.

After college a bunch of lightweight kids from high school would get together and play football. Two straight meetings ending in concussions ended that. We were virtually all less than 150lb.

I think you are missing their point

The 150lb thing was pretty clearly because he thought his weight would be a disadvantage. Like saying he wouldn't play basketball because he was 5'4" and had a bad knee, the weight and the danger weren't related to each other, they were different factors in the final decision not to play.

If that is the case, that just shows that the author is on very tall stack of misconceptions. No one plays full contact football recreationally. It’s completely too dangerous. People mostly play flag football. Also most sports have leagues grouped by size or ability. The author dismissed the sport out of hand with wrong information.

Adults usually don't strap on gear and tackle each other at your local park. When I played, we most ran routes, which is passing plays, if we weren't playing a pick up game. When I read this part of OP, I guessed he or she didn't do too much research on recreational sports.

It's possible to be independent and rational and still come to the same conclusion.

Have I had a need to choose a sport without keeping that diversity question in mind, I'll probably have ended up with ultimate anyway. Cheap, safe, fun, team spirit - it checks all the boxes for a pragmatic mind

Yes but the thinking process as expressed in the article did not show evidence of that. It showed weakness in reasoning and narrowness of thought.

I can't believe this comment is not sarcasm HAHA

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