The Gridiron’s Ethical Striping:

In this paper, I examine the ethical landscape surrounding tackle football, exploring the moral permissibility of the sport and the myriad ethical considerations it entails. This examination comprises the use of an ethical decision-making framework to analyze four key aspects: relevant empirical facts, affected parties, salient moral values/disvalues, and potential options. In pondering these aspects, I identify the ethical conflicts arising from factual disagreements, conflicting interests, and divergent values/disvalues concerning players’ decision to partake in gridiron football. In addition to emphasizing the importance of understanding and addressing such aspects and conflicts to devise potential solutions, I contend that ethical issues related to the permissibility of football ultimately stem from value-related conflicts, highlighting the necessity of examining and reconciling conflicting moral principles. Keywords: ethics, tackle football, values, affected parties, permissibility.

Accepted author manuscript version reprinted, by permission, from Kinesiology Review, 2024, (): , https://doi.org/10.1123/kr.2024-0039. © Human Kinetics, Inc.

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Work Title The Gridiron’s Ethical Striping:
Subtitle Threads of Tackle Football’s Permissibility
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  1. Francisco Javier Lopez Frias
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  1. Kinesiology Review
Publication Date August 1, 2024
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