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Trans Sports | Jon Pike

Brain in a Vat

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The Difficulty of Sport

I wonder though, whether it's possible to have a different account of the difficulties. So perhaps what we're interested in when we watch sports and spectators are intrigued by it is not because it's difficult for that person who's playing to do it, but it would be difficult for the rest of us. And if we accept that account of difficulty, then maybe the trans athlete or the Superman isn't a problem. It's not a threat to the impressiveness and the difficulty of that action because it doesn't have to be difficult for them. Yes, uncaswayed by that argument, I think Michael Phelps founded difficult to win the races that he won. One slip up, one Paul

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