Month: April 2025

Mosley’s argument is that sports are harmful to black Americans due to exploitative effects on black people, and also that there is a racial issue in that it highlights issues with genetics being a basis for racial ideology. The argument is very agreeable, but Mosley’s process of coming to these conclusions is more what I […]

I think the shift to game reasoning is not problematic, so long as the society that the game reasoning is abstracted from is inherently an impositional society where individual nature is inhibited in favor of causing them to display exhibitional behaviors that are advantageous to a perceived higher moral authority that people share subservience to. […]

Randolph Feezell writes, “Celebrated athletes are role models, not moral exemplars.” (Feezell 32). He justifies them as being role models by indicating that they become lusory objects when playing sports, under his own criteria. Feezell defines a lusory object as, “…an object whose meaning or significance cannot be understood independent of the way in which […]