b_b, the word on the street is that you can be one "bad mamma-jamma" with a hockey stick and skates. How do you reconcile, or any of us for that matter, the fact that we've taken extreme pleasure in a nicely applied hip-check to an opponent caught off guard? I've likely hurt someone else's consciousness, as well as my own, in similar sports-related situations. Dammit, though, it felt pretty good. Is it likely that as a person engages in sport, typical ideologies are set aside?
Well, I think that when we play sports that there's an assumed risk, and everyone is participating willingly. Getting hurt goes with the territory. But yes, I did once put a man in the hospital for an extended stay with 5 broken ribs and a collapsed lung. It was an ugly time, and felt terrible because that was crossing the line. On the other hand it's hard not to feel like a bad motherfucker when you nearly kill someone with your shoulder.