• Neato@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Soccer includes accurate throwing from the goalie. I’d posit that hitting a projectile with a stick accurately is a close cousin of throwing.

      That’s all the big ones in US and EU that I can think of.

      Baseball, basketball, soccer, football, cricket, rugby, hockey, what am I missing?

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      1 year ago

      “pretty much all” is a stretch, but it’s hard to disagree with that throwing things accurately is an aspect of a lot of our sports. And definitely the extreme dominant trait in American sports.

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          1 year ago

          You’re kinda intentionally missing the point.

          If you had to pick one uniquely human aspect to group together as many sports as possible, what would you pick?

          Teamwork is out because wolves hunt in packs and lions hunt in prides. Logic is arguable, everything we do is based in either emotion or logic, so it’s not a good answer imo.

          So what do you have left? Kicking and throwing are probably your best bets.