Essay: In the interests of public safety...
...dangerous sports should be banned.
This is an essay I'll hand in tomorrow... Only the last two paragraphs were completely done by me... my ideas and all... the ideas for the others were obligatory, which is imo always hard to work with... I usually can't really relate to them... but anyway... that's what I usually have to do for ILSS 2 (Integrated Language + Study Skills 2)... We usually use material from the IELTS examination as we have to sit a similar test (the "Common Final Test") at the end (19th January) of this term... I really love English... and I know I'm not perfect or anything, but most of the time classes just kinda bore me... most of the things I've already heard in school... I know that's because I wrote a paper in english for OBCCM (Organisational Behaviour and Cross Cultural Management) and did 2 english certificates, for which I already needed linking words, formal english, impersonal style and all that stuff... but anyway... the only things that don't let me get a straight A on everything are things I can't train... well... not really anyways...
vocabulary for starters... there are just times you NEED a thesaurus... or write it differently...
and than there's the way some questions are asked... I especially hate those "Yes, No, Not Given" kind of questions... actually only the "not given" part is really annoying... but still...
aaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway... to cut a long story short... have fun reading... if you actually want to... read... that is... ;)
Should dangerous sports be banned?
People nowadays seem to try to get away from their - what they believe to be - boring lives by indulging in audacious leisure activities. This behaviour often leads to serious if not fatal injuries. Seeing it from this point of view banning dangerous sports seems to be a reasonable notion.
This is especially true for sports such as mountaineering, rock climbing, caving and the like. People tend to get lost or trapped or otherwise incapable of getting out or down by themselves. As a result they need to be rescued. Just last week it was reported that a rescuer died during one such mission. Members of rescue teams not only risk their lives for strangers, but in case of something bad happening it also affects the rescuers families. Although, people generally agree that some accidents simply occur out of bad luck with no one to blame, others are simply caused by things such as disobeying rules and one might argue that even one such event is one too many.
On the other hand, how we spent our free time should be our decision. Some rather read a book than jump down a waterfall, but it is their choice and not because it is the only one. Besides, if people can not be trusted to make the right choices for themselves how can they be trusted at all? After all, freedom of choice makes a democracy a democracy and once the banning is started who knows where it will end.
Anyway, who will decide which sport is dangerous and therefore should be banned? Almost any sport involves some risk. Even with a chess figure you are able to stab someone’s eye. It is not likely, of course, but it is still a possibility and that is the point. What about horseback-riding, soccer or swimming? Maybe instead of banning sports we should try to make them safer and people more sensible
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