Good sportsmanship

I read one time, I don't hunt/shoot, but as a matter of casual interest, it's bad form not to follow injured dangerous game, which can be more dangerous as such, and finish the job. How condescending - if a critter manages to survive the first shot and scare me off it can take care of its own setup. The real hypocrisy, which is fine by me too, just that it makes anything after a superstitious line in the sand, is that one would hunt and expect safety, I mean, if the plan were to sit in a tree, push a button, and have a critter die, you've already crapped on your quarry's head and expected to hear thanks for the hat.

Now, we've got this baseball team helping an injured opponent round the bases...

Fox Sports - Opponents Carry...

Apparently the hitter had never touched over the fence before, overran the base and blew her knee apart. The outcome of the game was more or less forfeited, so it can be assumed that the idea was that higher realities of baseball were being served through good sportsmanship etc. Now here it comes - who are these jokers that they think they can do the right thing, through a mode of competition, by being anything other than competitors?

It's a sacrilege to people who've wither succeeded without injury, played through it, or failed because of it.

This is a common failing of modern thought - everyone thinks they conceive and interact fully with what is right and good among the higher realities, when so very few would even lower themselves, in this nation, to take a manual-labor intensive job for moderate or lower pay. It's like, nobody wants to know where steel comes from, but they think it's as natural as taking a whiz to 'do the right thing'. Mob mentality - populist mediocrity - the very thing competition is supposed to sort out - instead being enforced through the term 'good sportsmanship'.