But I’m still on the fence with professional and Olympic level sports.

At that level you have lots of money involved, which means, among other things, steroids, corruption and lack of sportsmanship (oh gee maybe it’s sportspersonship now…). So, really, not what i would consider sport so i don’t give a damn; they can all “compete” with llamas for all i care.
On everything else, it’s a sport, you’re doing it for sport, so who cares?
Of course some cultures are more competitive than others.

backup generators when black outs happen for hospitals

Good point.

Making it really expensive and hard to acquire should be all that’s needed.

All that ever does is limit access to the rich.

Free-speech so ideas don’t go suppressed,

Bare in mind that in english (especially murican english culture), “free-speech” is often used as “i can say whatever i want, including bigoted shit”. I do see a significant increase in the number of easily-offended people in the last decade, must be a generational thing.

make such decisions truely unbias

No such thing, there’s always a bias, but trying to minimize it is indeed a good goal imho.

Keeping some merit success with a socialist system to reward people to achieve more.

I’d say places where merit is actually and properly valued are few and far between.
And “socialist” red-scares muricans.