The Football of Ethics

My short thesis on Ethics and its relevence today.

Ethics is best described in todays times by the way it is fiddled with. Ethics has been shred to its barest minimum, making it naked as the dog is or is a kind of football to be tossed around from one pitch to another.

The soccer ball tournament - of which a World Cup is currently going on in South Africa - is to me, an appropriate analogy to compare how humans use Ethics today. In the present tournament we see how blatantly rules of the game is floated. Fouls have become a natural occurence, but worst is the fact that players and coaches today have no qualms in feigning an injury or hurt or harm even if no such foul was committed by the opponent player.

Has football become so competitive, that it is okay for players, team coaches, owners and clubs, officials and organizers, and the general public - to feel that it is alright if someone acts or displays pain without being actually pained.

Is it alright to cheat by such dramatics in the field. Don't you think that such efforts to take undue adavantage is infact spoiling the spirit of the game - even if the stake is as high as the World Cup itself.

Has cheating become acceptable today?

In the last thirty years of watching and playing soccer (i was a lousy mid-fielder), i have seen the deterioration the quality of football. The skills have gone down.

The field of football and the field of human behaviour has some parrallels.
Does human societies and its individual persons behave in a similar fashion as the footballers do on the field?