03-13-2004, 05:02 AM
>>By this argument, a pitcher who throws a beanball at a batter should get criminally prosecuted; a football player who performs a tackle out of bounds should be criminally prosecuted; a basketball player who commits any sort of flagrant foul should be criminally prosecuted. I could go on, but I think you get my point.
The law usually stays off the playing field, so long as no one is seriously injured. But when someone *is* badly hurt, it becomes a civil matter and those involved should be prosecuted just like any other suspected criminal. If any of those instances above ended in a broken neck, I think there would be come outside commotion, and rightly so.
The law usually stays off the playing field, so long as no one is seriously injured. But when someone *is* badly hurt, it becomes a civil matter and those involved should be prosecuted just like any other suspected criminal. If any of those instances above ended in a broken neck, I think there would be come outside commotion, and rightly so.