+19 If death sports came back, people would watch in their millions! amirite?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

A comedian trying dark humor? That NEVER happens /s

by Select-Software-7033 1 week ago

Old Russian Saying: Dark Humor is like food, not everyone gets it.

by Hermann99 1 week ago

Haha! I love dark humor.

by Useful_Store 1 week ago

Haha! I love food.

by Barrowsbrody 1 week ago

Norm has entered the chat

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Unfortunately he actually exited the chat.. I miss norm

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Lmaoo he would love this joke

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Most teenagers aren't reading for fun at all anymore let alone delving into the works of Russian novelists from the 1800s

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Oh! I think I misrepresented the situation. He's reading about Doestoevsky.

by bonitabaumbach 1 week ago

Speak for yourself, my parents burned my copy of Lolita three (3) times

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Make him watch a video

by schaefercierra 1 week ago

If I want him to do something, he will immediately not want to do it, and if he does do it anyway, he will find a thousand reasons why it was the worst experience of his life. I'm ruining his life, you see, with my unconditional love and support.

by bonitabaumbach 1 week ago

Get him the book How to Talk Dirty and Influence People.

by Available_Cat 1 week ago

He's right, though. People do terrible things just for internet clout. Add a profit motive and lack of consequences and the flood gates would open.

by Dear-Biscotti 1 week ago

nah. i think thats a fringe group. the majority of society would probably still be alright....but im also an optimist.

by bernard66 1 week ago

I always feel like something like this, especially in some kind of sport, quite a few would watch but very few would admit it

by Ok_Competition_5411 1 week ago

Nah, I agree. We are adapted to be averse to killing babies because it would be horrible for the species we wouldn't last. It's normal to not want this and to hate it. It's not laws keeping this from being mainstream, it's actual humanity. There will always be a fringe group of psychopaths, unfortunately, though. The laws are for them.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

"Good people don't need to be governed. Bad people can't be governed at all"

by ZoneLogical8703 1 week ago

I think many more could watch something bad happening than do something bad. I don't think you need to be an optimist to think most people would continue their morals in this case. Keep being an optimist tho because it is much harder than give in to the negativity that is pushed on everyone. We need more optimists.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You're underestimating the depravity of people..

by Brandy89 1 week ago

Going by the username I'm going to assume you're Lenny Bruce?

by rosedare 1 week ago

I don't think so... who here would do heroin even if it were legal? Lol you gotta have little more faith in humanity than that! And that's coming from a cynic like me!

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah, anyone that truly believes we would start killing babies if there weren't laws is inadvertently making a shocking admission.

by Cecilialittle 1 week ago

Yeah, and I understand the argument that there are horrible fringe things like Dog Fighting and what not. But even that crowd would be turned off by babies being killed. There are only a very few, fraction of humanity that are utter psychopaths that would enjoy such a thing. The quote makes it sound like it would be mainstream. Hell nah.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Well…I mean they USED to come out in droves to watch hangings and executions. People literally had picnics on the hills around some battles of the American Civil War. Look how many ppl used to watch Nascar just for the crashes. Maybe a huge percentage of the population isn't inherently bloodthirsty, but they WILL watch someone die if it's good entertainment and they're not the ones actually doing it lol

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Nah dogfighters would throw actually babies in there if they could.

by Myah89 1 week ago

Not everyone od course. But the amount of dead babies would Sky rocket. Even people you normally asumed are moral. The same with sexual crimes, slavery, killings, abductions.

by Additional-Shop-9625 1 week ago

Lots of people here do heroin, cocaine, etc even though it is still illegal. It's why many cities are considering decriminalizing drug use. Too many people on drugs to enforce this law.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I said the same thing about weed and then all my parents rich, retired boomer friends started dabbling in "smoking weed" once it got legalized, so I think there are def people who'd do heroin only because it became legal lol I mean less than weed but they're out there

by ullrichalanna 1 week ago

I would be 100% buying cocaine if it were legal and available next to a liquor store

by Equivalent_Ease 1 week ago

kids are sex trafficked by the thousands but it's illegal. You don't think much worse things would be happening if the world was lawless?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Vigilantes would be having a great time

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I moved to the the US from the UK as a teenager and was honestly shocked by America's funniest home videos. It was like funny, funny, oh my god that person is in the hospital now!!, funny, with the audience just laughing along as if it was all fine. I had to turn it off thinking wtf is wrong with everyone watching this.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I HAVE imagined that about Tom Brady...

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah that's just a Manning Thanksgiving tradition at this point

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Eli has 2 confirmed kills on Brady.

by adamsvirginia 1 week ago

Peyton made this exact joke at the roast of Tom Brady, his part was actually good

by israelcollier 1 week ago

Bad example, everyone wants to see that.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If we're only talking playoffs he'd still have 3 Super Bowl rings lol

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You don't need professional for survival games. Just bunch of people desperate for money

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You could still make it financially worth it with advertising, just not have long term stars. Have a hunger games like draft with inmates or insane volunteers. Have it big with like 128 fighters and a year long event. Put the all the fighters through a basic training boot camp. Single elimination of course. Fights would be spaced to give fighters time to heal, as well as have an event at pretty regular intervals, and follow up opponents based on best attempts to match up based on health. It'd even out in the end, you'd have either all fighter banged up a little by the final four or the absolute best with very few injuries. Some fights would of course end with the winner being permanently handicapped and unable to continue, but you execute that one (gotta execute him or else fighters may fake injuries) and have some kind of bonus system so another fighter would be able to earn a bye so the bracket doesn't get screwed up (or maybe have a small wolf or tiger take the disabled winners place)

by wilhelmkonopels 1 week ago

Agree on all points and want to add: Adding death to the UFC for example wouldn't really make watching any more entertaining. They always fight to the point of unconsciousness essentially, adding in a final death blow would just add 30 seconds onto the fight and for the payoff of losing a fighter. Adding swords or whatever? I suppose that's a different conversation.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Without armor, sword fights last just a few minutes. It's all about who gets the first hit. Not fun. With armor, swords get stuck in the armor and get destroyed really quickly so it just turns into a wrestling fight. Not fun either. I'd rather stick to standard BJJ.

by Nearby_Ad 1 week ago

I've only got like 2 minutes of cardio in me anyways. Let's go with sword fights then.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I doubt it would even last a few minutes. Strikes in a fencing match happen in seconds. If it did last minutes, it would likely be the fighters just circling each other and waiting.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I think the latter is more likely. Strikes happen in fencing so fast because there's no real consequences. People really don't want to die.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Speak for yourself /s

by Anonymous 1 week ago

To be totally fair, Buhurt exists and it's a blast to watch and participate in. It's not to the death, but people in metal suits clobbering each other with big blunt objects and throwing each other to the ground is certainly a spectacle

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Who said it would be volentary?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Most gladiators were slaves, but even then most fights weren't to the death. It's bad business for the slave master to constantly kill off their stock like that.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Okay so then you make it lottery style among the slaves. Take all the names and draw a boy and a girl, do it for all the districts and let them fight to the death.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah I imagined it would be more like people with death sentences fighting it out for a stay of execution or even people with life sentences fighting to get years taken off

by Zemlakkennith 1 week ago

This feels like it would be a black mirror episode

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah this isn't an unpopular opinion, it's just factually incorrect. Or at least based on a false premise.

by naomiemorar 1 week ago

It would definitely be prisoners.

by Destinikonopels 1 week ago

What if, even if you lost, your family became rich? There was a point in time that I would've considered that seriously.

by Morarricardo 1 week ago

That would be somewhat reasonable. It would be like a life insurance policy that allowed suicide by battle lol. If you win, then cool, you got money. If you die, cool, you wanted to die anyways and now your family is taken care of.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah you don't understand history. No one was volunteering for this stuff. Unfortunately it's only the last 200 years that slavery has been considered a bad thing. Before that people were absolutely putting slaves in the Colosseum to fight, not by choice

by Anonymous 1 week ago

And the gladiatorial matches had rules and referees (with one or two assistants) who could interrupt the match if a gladiator was cheating and matches were nearly always agreed to not be to the death and a gladiator could call a time off if his gear was broken or they could throw the match if they felt it was unfair... people talk about stuff they know nothing about.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

No you are over estimating. Currently You can watch executions / beheadings / killings on the internet. Very rarely do those videos ever go viral / get as popular compared to fake violence. People overwhelmingly avoid such gruesome videos. Making it legal wouldn't change cultural sensibilities overnight.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah, there's plenty out there already. Generally normal, well-adjusted people don't want to see that sort of stuff though

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I'll enjoy watching people fight, but there's nothing enjoyable about watching 1 or more dudes inflict violence on someone who can only be described as a victim. It's not the same.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yea i love watching fights too, but anything past a nosebleed makes me sick to see.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Haven't heard about that site in a while. Thanks for the memories.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

True. Nobody is starting a text chain like, "Hey guys, I compiled a playlist of public executions. I will supply the drinks if someone can bring wings."

by Anonymous 1 week ago

People don't watch military shootouts or brutal street fights that often

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Look at MMA and Boxing. Sure, we watch it for the spectacle, the competition, the tension etc... but most people really want to see a violent war or a big knock out at the end and these are the fights which get the most praise. Gladiators were no different. If you asked an average civilian "do you want to see a murder" they might likely say no, if you asked them "do you want to watch two people fight in the arena, potentially to the death" they'd jump at the opportunity. I love boxing and mma. I don't want to see people in the street getting beaten up, or rando's off the street getting assaulted because there's no entertainment, but professional athletes fighting each other with similarly dangerous possibilities is hugely entertaining and brings in hundreds of millions of $ every year.

by willow17 1 week ago

I also think these are different. This is murder. If you are fighting in the UFC, to the death, you are consenting to possibly dying.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

No one would consent to fighting to the death in a UFC-esque organisation though. The only people fighting would be the mentally ill, desperate, or otherwise vulnerable. That's unethical in of itself

by Anonymous 1 week ago

There's a big difference between a cartel execution and a gladiator fight lmao

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Explicit videos like that aren't allowed to be on platforms that can make it viral.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I have coworkers that share those videos all the time. I find it gross and weird, but they do go viral...

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Most people who say they would watch this would change their minds quickly once they see the gore and despair that would go along with something like this

by Kaseyweber 1 week ago

People now aren't any different than people in ancient Rome. They just think they are.

by RichOrchid 1 week ago

I think it's true, not on the specifics, but on the basis that we are all blighted by the moral customs of our time. People in the future will probably regard us as a sick society for what we've done to the ocean alone. Probably a million other things that we presently tolerate or ignore.

by Prudent_Grass9006 1 week ago

Bold of you to assume we will still have a society in the future

by brodericktromp 1 week ago

humanity is resilient. people think there will be an apocalypse but it will more likely be a slow creeping death.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Oh there will be one alright, its just a matter of how many of the current populations decendants will be there

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I think it's worth noting that the same could be said the other way around. People in ancient Rome aren't any different than people now. There is a myth that ancient romans were this blood thirsty death game fanatics, but we're finding out that deaths in fights were kind of rare thing and people liked the spectacle of a fight even without the death element. Case in point, there were free romans happily becoming gladiator as careers.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

But were they not entertained?

by mclaughlinarjun 1 week ago

WERE THEY NOT ENTERTAINED!?

by Ewellbalistreri 1 week ago

Exactly. These gladiators were fed, trained and had their equipment bought and maintained. Would make for a terrible investmemt if they died by the dozen. Gladiator life was more akin to today's wrestlers.

by Lonely_Direction 1 week ago

Some of them yes. There were a lot of slaves and criminals who were forced into those games though

by Dependent-Plastic 1 week ago

so they werent killed?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Gladiators were not. Slaves. criminals.. early Christians - yes, alot.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Same way it would be if it started back up. It wouldn't Mike Tyson and some MMA dude fight to the death. It would be MMA guy vs a convicted pedo. Or a gang member. But it would warp quickly into all "undesirable". So all of a sudden a non-popular religion gets tossed in. Or people from a certain country.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The thrilla on Ellis island

by Anonymous 1 week ago

There was no abortion debate in Rome. If you had a baby you didn't want, you'd just leave it on a garbage pile somewhere. No harm, no foul. A baby wasn't considered 'alive' until someone, usually the father, gave it a name. Up until that point the baby could be thrown out with the literal trash if the parents so chose.

by FewInternal 1 week ago

And actors. They were akin to prostitutes.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The death and gore of the games was far from exaggerated. Granted it wasn't the highly trained and armed gladiators dying, it was the slaves, prisoners, Christians, etc. that were used as fodder that died. Hell, even Nero used Christians as living candles for night games, so no, it's not exaggerated.

by SeparateNinja5238 1 week ago

This. I don't enjoy the suffering of others. I can't even stand watching animals being slaughtered, even though I am not a vegetarian. If I would have been raised in a farm, it would have not been like this.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

you were raised until you were 44? weirdo.

by Dull-Grand 1 week ago

We aren't much different; people just go to LiveLeak now.

by Thick-Ant6778 1 week ago

Not true. We have way more lead and plastic poisoning our bodies than the ancient Romans did.

by AnyTrade 1 week ago

It's crazy when you see bathroom stall humor from Roman times "talk to Claudia for a good time". Thousands of years and we still are the same base animals.

by Batzsherwood 1 week ago

People remain quite similar, but societal norms change, and that's what OP fails to account for.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

well that depends on what is your definition of human nature

by huelsnoemy 1 week ago

That's never not been true. We have always been a social species. The only question is what exactly, and to what extent.

by FewInternal 1 week ago

Societies do change. While we may be barbaric, we know it's best and more civilized to not be. It's a choice as a society that we have made.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Gladiators didn't fight to the death, that is a myth.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah, why tf would you spend thousands of dollars on a slave, train him up, and watch that money disappear because he got too close to a hungry tiger?

by Mayerlucius 1 week ago

Have you ever watched a cock fight?

by Plastic_Butterfly_55 1 week ago

Yes, but I'm pretty sure a slave cost more than a rooster, plus you gotta train them, get them equipment, etc

by Mayerlucius 1 week ago

Yeah, plus cocks just kinda do their thing…if you let them

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I imagine they're a lot cheaper to maintain.

by vbins 1 week ago

Seems impractical. The guys would have to be standing so close together.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Fighting to the death isn't the same as a fight that results in incidental death.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You misunderstand my point. There were still to-the-death events, but the majority of events were not to-the death. Also, 10% of gladiators died during a fight.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Not a myth. Just rare.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Gladiator combat were rarely to the death, it was just pretty much WWE with blood most of the time. The only people that were dying were either accidental or were sentenced to death

by brown08 1 week ago

or were sentenced to death There were a lot of those, and they tried to maximize the entertainment value.

by FewInternal 1 week ago

Eh, a lot of people don't even watch mma because of the blood. There'd be a market but it wouldn't be a universal thing.

by Dazzling-Pen 1 week ago

Even the MMA fanbase hates Slap Fight or whatever it is. It's just CTE in a hurry.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I once cried because I saw a really cute cat and I couldn't handle how cute the cat was. I'm sure a lot of people would watch death sports, but I wouldn't. I feel things big. It's exhausting. Death sports would cause me to have a panic attack.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If you have a photo of the cat, pm me please.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If I find it, I will. The cat looked like a plushie and looked so soft.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Dm me the cat too pls

by Frosty-Slide-6760 1 week ago

Bro just go volunteer for Ukraine or smth, go watch your death sport

by Primary_Plastic 1 week ago

Jfc. Some of yall (including OP) are scary close to being psychotic. Just no, I would never ever be ok with watching that.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

OP just finished watching Guns Akimbo lol

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Squid Games moment

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If they had Gladiators fight pedophiles, I would buy tickets.

by Clean-Message4407 1 week ago

I'd probably watch bare knuckle fighting, or some kind of more extreme mixed martial arts. Death sport....I've no interest in watching some soul die tbh.

by Imogenemedhurst 1 week ago

BKFC is a thing

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I'd watch bare knuckle boxing. I'd also watch a version of olympics where every kind of performance enhancing drug and procedure is allowed. It'd be fascinating to see how far the contestants would take it.

by ZealousidealBit 1 week ago

Obviously, there are too many messed up people around.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Messed up people. Or as I like to call them: people.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

People. Or as I generally like to refer to them: Solyent Green.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

We should put everyone on death row nationwide in a thunderdome once a year with weapons placed around and let them go at it. Last man standing goes free. PPV fees distributed to victims families.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The trouble with this is that it would inevitably lead to there being more people placed on death row to satisfy demand.

by Christianaconn 1 week ago

Yes, I see very healthy and sustainable growth in this market.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

No different from cheap prison labor when labor was in demand.

by Nearby_Ad 1 week ago

So basically Battle Royale but with murderers instead of high school students.

by mclaughlinarjun 1 week ago

Rather than free, maybe they get better living conditions in prison. Can't have a death row inmate that killed bunch of people in a gladiator match be let into society

by Such-Environment 1 week ago

That would cull most of them, but the champion would one dangerous psycho. Maybe if they compete to stay in a luxury prison and a stay on their execution want another year of life compete again. Anyone who has three separate convictions is someone who has had two second chances and not learned, will never be safe, send them to the arena and never let them out.

by True-Formal 1 week ago

In Gladiator Arenas fight to the death was extremly rare and not a norm that is a misconception.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Anyone whose morality is held in check only through the threat of punishment through divine or human law is already a terrible person.

by AdvancedResolve 1 week ago

We already have technically a 'death' sport in the Isle of Man TT. I'm not 100% sure but if I am right in thinking then at least one person dies doing it every single event?

by Terrillheidenre 1 week ago

OP might be correct, but what keeps people on track is not law but rather a healthy cohesive culture or cultures, Government does not have the power to make good people

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Gladiators almost never fought to the death (that was never the intention although fatal accidents did happen) and the king/emperor never did that thing with the thumbs up or down. It's all just hollywood movies.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

People watch football now even though the players end up having brain trauma and injuries for life. The fans just want to be entertained and don't care about the players. So we aren't too far off.

by Shot_Donut5205 1 week ago

If they were all bad people fighting, I might watch but just regular people NO too gross & wrong.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The experiment Marina Abramović did proves your point. People had absolute freedom to do whatever they wanted to her. They ended up abusing her, almost killing her.

by Brayan72 1 week ago

If you were wrong, there wouldn't still be war

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Nah. We think we're desensitized to violence because of videogames and UFC etc. But if something like you propose were to be "just given a shot", the first time someone gets slashed in the throat and blood is spewing out of their neck like a firehose in 4K, most everyone would rightfully be sick to their stomaches and would be like WTF are we doing here???

by Anonymous 1 week ago

We are more civilized precisely because we don't allow such things anymore. We have, as a society, recognized our own faults and acted to prevent things from getting too awful.

by herminaschumm 1 week ago

Especially if it was pedophiles, people would love it

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I think if you are morally cool with people committing assisted suicide (provided they are mentally evaluated) and you are not morally cool with people consenting to death matches (provided they are mentally evaluated) you might be drawing a very weird moral line.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Of course they would. I don't think this is an unpopular opinion per se - just an uncomfortable fact about humanity. I hate the fact that it would do well, but I can see no world within which it wouldn't.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Just the psychopaths. Seeing a real death in person or live on TV gives most people an awful feeling. Do you think people were having a ton of fun watching 9/11 live on TV with dozens of people throwing themselves off the building?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Listen to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History episode Paintofainment. I believe it is still available. It is an eye opening look into what people in the past would do for entertainment. Mostly executions, torture, etc. People would bring their whole families.

by Metzsaul 1 week ago

The structures of society tame humanities darker impulses. When that structure falls apart, humans grow in aggression and violence to get what they want. Just see how neglected and undisciplined children behave.

by Hirthethaddeus 1 week ago

I would 100% watch it.

by myrnawiegand 1 week ago

An irl battle Royale blood sport like Apex Legends? Hmmm.... Sound interesting.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I don't know about anyone else but I'd watch

by CarrotMindless 1 week ago

Violence is a part of human civilization, no use denying it

by josianne61 1 week ago

Agree. Let the lifers squid game their way to freedom.

by Foreign-Distance-109 1 week ago

I would, but would want to know they entered of their own free will

by Select-Software-7033 1 week ago

And if my grandma had wheels she would be a skateboard

by Anonymous 1 week ago