Rory: Deontological Device In Sport

As a professional soccer player, Rory has played soccer long enough to know the rules of the game and the right way to play it. In a day and age where soccer players try and use simulations to gain an advantage, these actions are giving the wrong idea to youth soccer players who aspire to become professionals like Rory. The message that Rory is sending shows other athletes and spectators that deception is and ethical practice in sport, which takes away from the positive values that sports like soccer teach. In this situation, the appropriate course of action would be to give Rory a yellow card for feigning an injury. This type of behavior needs to stop and athletes need to be penalized accordingly.

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A deontological approach can be used here as the issue is based on the idea of fairness. The right thing to do here is to punish Rory for his actions address the issue of positive deviance in athletes. Positive deviance refers to the rejection of norms in sport by coaches and athletes. Hughes and Coakley (1991) explore this issue and found that athletes do not believe they are overconforming to the sport, but are rather confirming their identity as members of the team they represent. In this example, Rory is deviating from the norms of soccer by diving, an unethical practice that he thinks will help his team to victory. As a young member of the team, Rory may have felt the pressure to perform and sacrifice himself for the group and Hughes and Coakley (1991) hypothesize that these behaviours are most common in athletes that overconform in sport. The appropriate punishment for Rory in this situation would be to give him a yellow card for misconduct, potentially fine him for his actions and suspend him. This type of policy shows the teams that the league does not condone this type of behavior and that the game needs to be played fairly and in the right