Ethical Psychology (1) Fair Play

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Article #11, Date 22/04/2022
Time: 02:15 PM

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Fair Play

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The football match was going on in London. The foremost match between West Ham and Everton ended in a goalless draw.

In the last instants, West Ham pounce on the goal. Everton's goalkeeper buckled as a file was pulled out of the penalty box in an attempt to stop the spell. The ball bounced off a West Ham player who passed it through a cross to Paulo de Canio, who was standing in front of the goal. The goal was void in front of Paolo de Canio. All you had to do was put the ball in and success the match.

De Canio clutched the ball in his big hand and pointed to the goalkeeper, who would not score because the opposing goalkeeper had fallen. There was an instant response from the viewers. Everyone stood up and paid praise to De Canio's action. It included fans of both teams.

After a while, the match finished. West Ham could not triumph the match due to the action of de Canio. He was admired by the International Football Association (FIFA) and de Canio was granted with the Fair Play Award.

(The Italian player de Canio has a name as an angry player and has had many hullabaloos in his profession before. In one match, when the referee showed him a red card, he was disqualified for pushing and dropping the adjudicator. In another occurrence, he was censured for saluting a fascist in front of his right-wing fans after scoring a goal.

This action by de Canio raises some basic queries about ethics. A summary of this condition.

First of all, the action was innate. It was not that they first related right and wrong, thought its opinions and then decided. As soon as the ball came to him, he had decided.

Football rules did not thwart them from scoring goals. Neither he nor any of his co-players dishonored any law. Even in the goalkeeper's damage, no player of his team had any hand, deliberately or inadvertently. It was permissible to take gain of this chance. It was their right to score.

Even if he had scored, there would have been no postponement in getting medicinal help to the goalkeeper. That is, not discontinuing the game here was not spoiling anybody.

As a player, someone's goal is to victory their team. This is the promise between the team and the performer. The club pays the performer a lot of coinage for this work. That's what the players do.

Did de Canio disrupt his agreement by purposely trailing the chance to win while lasting within the law? Wasn't that a disloyalty to his team?

But fans of the match, his team manager, football observers and FIFA agreed with de Canio's action.

Almost everybody approved that scoring a goal was lawful but not ethically precise.

But why? For this, the aspect of human psychology that we have to go to is the theme of ethical psychology. And to recognize this, we need help from a book written by the famous social psychologist Jonathan Heights.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

To Be Continued.........

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