Almost every athlete started sporting when they were a kid, and it’s the passion and competitiveness they developed back then that is pushing them to reach top sport levels.
Yes, you are telling the kid inside them which started their whole journey to the top to not do what they want to do.
Regardless, it was a metaphorical comparison, I wasn’t calling them mental children.
lmfao, what a take
“Um, actually, athletes are mentally children and therefor morally unaccountable for the people they enrich.”
No, that’s not how anything works.
Almost every athlete started sporting when they were a kid, and it’s the passion and competitiveness they developed back then that is pushing them to reach top sport levels.
Yes, you are telling the kid inside them which started their whole journey to the top to not do what they want to do.
Regardless, it was a metaphorical comparison, I wasn’t calling them mental children.