Concept
Playing-Hurt Moral Language
Playing-hurt moral language names how sports (and analogous institutions) moralize embodied cost. Protocols, pitch counts, and load rules exist alongside praise for those who refuse to come out.
Playing-hurt moral language names how sports (and analogous institutions) moralize embodied cost. Protocols, pitch counts, and load rules exist alongside praise for those who refuse to come out. The phrase matters when incentives and identity make reporting injury feel like betrayal. It differs from ordinary courage because the virtue frame can silence disclosure; it differs from safety policy because the moral story often outruns the written protocol.
