Professional Sports, Fandom, and A Rational Life
Oct 20th, 2020
There are many examples of fans behaving badly due to their emotional attachment to their teams, and so this raises a question: can being a committed fan be a part of a rational way of living? Or is a genuine attachment to a professional sports team - or indeed any sort of fandom - incompatible with an intentional, virtues-oriented mode of life?
The answer they provide is that it is indeed possible to be a good fan - not just "good" in terms of being devoted to a team, but in moral and ethical terms.