WARNING: BEING A MAN IS A DANGER TO YOUR HEALTH
A boxer was injured in a fight in Sydney last weekend. At the time of writing he was on life support. There have been injuries in boxing many times before, among as many as ninety percent of boxers, according to some US estimates. Boxing is a sport that pits one man against another for the entertainment of more fortunate people. Sport seems hardly the right word for such organised violence. Sport, as Orwell said, 'provokes vicious passions'. It is war without bullets: Serious
