[JakeAl]

I disagree. I think everyone has their own journey and everyone must accept and respect it for the value it offers. Just because you can't see the value or the impact does not mean it's not there. Wings of butterflies and all that. Ali's influence on the world is incalculable. How's that for critical thinking?

"We must"? No, we musn't. If you don't like sports, don't watch them. I don't.

Clearly you come here with an agenda. The goal of your "progress" is by definition regressive. Equality means respecting and defending everyone's rights equally as individuals and not a specific ingroup, such "those who contribute in a more fair sense." That would be collectivism and you appear to be demonstrating authoritarian attitudes and socialist (culturally Marxist) shaming techniques in an attempt to make people feel disconnected from the intellectual elite as a means of coercing them to join your group/cause. We are not your weaponized zombies, shamed into submission and programmed to deliver your message so we fit into what you define as an elite group.

That's called 'malignant narcissism' by the way. How's that for openness?

The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as individuals is what needs to be promoted if you believe in free will/agency as a goal. And with that you have to accept the good with the bad, whatever you believe them to be.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know freedom meant people doing stuff that sucks." --Summer, Rick and Morty Episode 203: Auto Erotic Assimilation