Needed Perspective

And now, perhaps it’s time to take a deep breath, and step back. Even the best causes and best intentions can occasionally tip into overkill, if not into hysteria.

Professional hockey players, who are paid handsomely, in part to endure significant risks, are not minor-hockey players. Some of what is done in their workplace would be considered a crime on the street – but it is not a crime in context, because of implied consent. In any case, what they do to each other, no matter how violent, is not the same thing as a 10-year-old being run over in a house-league game by another 10-year-old who weighs twice as much.