Future Sports

They say there's nothing new under the sun -- but here are two ethical issues cropping up at the intersection of new technologies and sports. It's hard to know exactly what cross-cuttings of this kind will arise, and therefore hard for ethicists to be sure they're covering all the bases.

It's also hard to know what parallels and ana;logies will be drawn, as one considers issues of this kind. Will the ethics of hunting at a distance, for instance, carry over into the realm of warfare, and impact our ethical understanding of the kind of "distanced" warfighting that remotely-controlled drones, for instance, permit?