Do you think sports should have the same prestige as the arts?

Korean government usually cut funding for sports facilities and athletic teams at school and is often in favor of increased funding for school arts programs. However, I think that sports have much more advantages than the arts. Sports can offer students academic and social skills as well as physical benefits. More importantly, the benefits from sports are the same whether of not the students are good at the sports. Also, by playing sports, students can relieve stress and reduce depression from their hectic schedule. Furthermore, sports can teach the importance of teamwork and leadership skills, learning that they have to cooperate as a team to win the game.

Yoojin

Yes to equal value of sports and arts!

Today I was confronted with an interesting question of which the answer is evident to me: Should sports have the same prestige as the arts? YES! To my mind neither of them should be considered better or worse than the other. Therefore, sports undoubtedly deserves to be recognized at least as much as the arts is. For decades, sports contributes so much to our society. Let us prove this by the topic "world championship in soccer". It provides an excellent opportunity for people to meet each other and to spur their teams. The result is that sports gets a cultural meaning because it motivates people to come together and to create and strengthen their team spirit. In other words, sports is a reason for arousing enthusiasm which connects people not only in a figurative but also in a literal sense.
The latter underscores and simultaneously explains precisely why sports should have the same prestige as the arts: It connects people. It gives them something they can be proud of and something which they can share with others. Isn't this exactly what the arts does?

Sports should have the same prestige as the arts?

As some arts are performed using physical actions, some sports have the beauty of arts and people are impressed by both of them. I think there are gradations between sport and art as two extremes. For example, ballet is considered an art but it needs to use your body with endurance and muscular and it is usually very sportive. Figure-skating is an Olympic sport but it is played with beautiful music and it is as expressive as dancing. Therefore, it falls right in between sport and art. Like this example, some sports are not just tough but also sophisticated enough to have the same prestige and appreciation as the arts.

Do you think sports should have the same prestige as the arts? (Thomas)

Nowadays, sport people and artists (musicians, singers, movie directers...) are the people living of a kind of leisure who earn the most money. Therefore, I think that on an economic point of view, sports and arts enjoy the same prestige.
As far as culture is concerned, in ancient Greece, the olympic games were an in event as much important than the development of the arts, maybe more.
So sports are able to have the same prestige as the arts, it's just a question of culture, it depends on each country to say if sports "should" have the same prestige as the arts.

Clones for food?

Scientists have been cloning animals to make an exact duplicate for research and even for food. Even though the Food and Drug Administration has approved cloned beef and other foods for consumption, many people, including me, do not approve. Many people disagree for ethical or religious reasons claiming that life should not be created in a lab. Like me, health conscious people just prefer their food to be as organic as possible. For farmers and consumers, cloning can be dangerous. Since all of the animals or plants in a field share the same genes and weaknesses, one disease can affect them all at the same time, destroying everything. Genetic variation is needed for healthy stable farms.

GM foods

I do not like genetically modified food because I think they can be dangerous for human consumption. Even though all of our foods contain genes, they are naturally produced and we are used to them already. However, when the genes are genetically modified, our bodies might not be able to digest them the same way. Therefore, consuming genetically modified food might be harmful to our health.

Cloning (Yoojin)

Cloning is a huge subject that keeps polarizing society after Dolly,which was the first cloned animal, was born. The major pro of cloning is that if it is possible to clone the vital organs of the human body, people can use them as backup system when they get sick. People who have a problem with their organs do not need to wait for suitable organ donors. However, there are disadvantages to cloning. the most controversial issue about advantages and disadvantages of cloning is the ethical problem,. For me,it seems to unethical to act like God by making a embryo that becomes a human being eventually.