{"id":833,"date":"2020-12-04T16:34:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T16:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=833"},"modified":"2020-12-04T16:34:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T16:34:06","slug":"maybe-sports-is-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/04\/maybe-sports-is-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe sports is the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month I asked what — other than a religious revival<\/a> — “is likely to move the country towards large-scale adoption of personal morality and decency?” That is, to honor following the rules more than obtaining a desired outcome. To insist on fairness, even when it goes against your interest. To look upon adversaries as friends who are temporarily on the other side. <\/p>\n

Isn’t this good sportsmanship? Isn’t it part of what it means to play a game? After all, the goal of playing a game is not primarily to win today’s game, but to play in a way that encourages long-term success. <\/p>\n

And maybe it’s not only organized sports, where the referees and the parents keep things in line. There’s a place for organized sports, to learn certain disciplines and such, but there’s also a very important place for pick-up games — for backyard football and for playing baseball on the street, where you have to make up your own rules and resolve your own conflicts. <\/p>\n

It is possible that the decline in civility corresponds with a decline in sports participation? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month I asked what — other than a religious revival — “is likely to move the country towards large-scale adoption of personal morality and decency?” That is, to honor following the rules more than obtaining a desired outcome. To insist on fairness, even when it goes against your interest. To look upon adversaries as … Continue reading “Maybe sports is the answer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}