"But you couldn't respond without an indictment of how brainwashed he is, in your opinion."
I encourage you to quote that part of my comment. For bonus points, quote the part where I said I can't understand why people enjoy sports.
I encourage you to quote that part of my comment. For bonus points, quote the part where I said I can't understand why people enjoy sports.
Go ahead, say, with a straight face, that such a remark was not effectively a paraphrasing of what I said and was a non-loaded question asked with sincerity. To claim that you were not implying some corporate brainwashing in what you said is, frankly, disingenuous.
I think the commenter was being a bit of an ass too, but I think he still has a defensible point, and it's not the absurd point that you're making it out to be.
Suffice to say, this: I think that it's possible to enjoy sport at a professional / high level (or local for that matter), in itself, whilst still having something of a disdain for overly crass commercialization (which varies between sports).