SES 2200- Introduction to Kinesiology
Chapter Review #3
Discuss whether each of the following dilemmas is morally acceptable and provide details of the reasoning by which they arrived at their conclusions. Replies should be 3-4 sentences per scenario.
A 12-year-old girl lives outside the city limits on a farm. She wants to play on a youth soccer team, but a youngster has to be a resident of the city to play in the city league, and there aren’t any teams in the surrounding rural area. Her mother decides to lie about the girl’s address; the mother tells the soccer league that the girl lives inside the city at her uncle’s house. The girl is delighted to play on a city soccer team, even though the team wins only three games all season.
You score the winning run for your high school baseball team, but you know that when you rounded third, your foot missed the base. The official didn’t see it, so you decide to keep quiet about it. In the locker room after the game, your coach tells you that you did the right thing by not admitting you missed the base.
You like to work out on a treadmill at the new cardio fitness center on campus, and ideal workouts for you are at least 45 minutes long. You are in the cardio center almost every day, and you usually arrive just before the place gets really busy after work. There is a 30-minute limit on machines when people are waiting, but you want your workout to be longer, so you get a friend who doesn’t like the treadmill to sign up for an extra 30 minutes right after you, and then you use the extra time for yourself.