Question about Sport, War - Gordon Marino responds
Seeing the devout passion of sports fans I've often wondered if sports today are a substitute for war. People root for their hometown team and despise people from other towns because of their sport...
View ArticleQuestion about Animals, Ethics, Sport - Jean Kazez responds
I have two questions about hunting and fishing: First, is it is ethical to use powerful machinery and high-technology to find and harvest fish and game? Second, is "professional" fishing ethical? It...
View ArticleQuestion about Ethics, Sport - Douglas Burnham responds
My question deals with fair play and the relative value that we ascribe to victories in sports that are either earned through no apparent cheating or that are earned through a clear (though at the...
View ArticleQuestion about Sport - Eddy Nahmias responds
Any thoughts on being for or against bullfighting? Response from: Eddy Nahmias I am against needless animal suffering, such as factory farming, so I should probably be against bullfighting. But it...
View ArticleQuestion about Sport - Douglas Burnham responds
How can we precisely define cheating in sports? It does not appear sufficient to say that any instance of willful rule-breaking in sports counts as cheating. For instance, no one would say that one...
View ArticleQuestion about Sport, Truth - Eddy Nahmias responds
Does there exist objective truths about what football (soccer) team is the best? My friends keep telling me that it's possible, on the basis of statistics, to say that Spain objectively is the best...
View ArticleQuestion about Sport - Charles Taliaferro responds
Dear Philosophers, My question is about the morality of actions in games. Can our behaviors in a game - however friendly or cruel if they are inside the borders of the game's rules - be regarded as...
View ArticleQuestion about Sport - Allen Stairs responds
I am a soccer fanatic. I watch as much soccer as possible. So it was no question that I saw the Women's World Cup Final. But as I watched the US play Japan in the Women's World Cup Final, I became...
View ArticleQuestion about Sport - Oliver Leaman responds
When playing games, be they sports, board games, video games or what have you, there are almost always fixed rules, and violating these rules is usually accepted to be illegal within the game....
View ArticleQuestion about Sport - Allen Stairs responds
In sports (especially boxing) fans love to rank the best boxers, players or teams. So when ranking the Greatest Boxers of All-Time -- is it ethical to include boxers you or anyone else (alive) have...
View ArticleQuestion about Sport - Oliver Leaman responds
Is it immoral to play poker (a game that inherently involves bluffing) full time to make a living even if it is more profitable for someone than a traditional job? Even if we consider it a sport akin...
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