When an unfair episode is avoided somebody is punished, according to media. Is this a demonstration of ethics problems?
by Emanuele Bonini
Italy, what's wrong with you? If wrong is really wrong, of course. There is more than an impression about the huge problem Italy has in distinguish between what is right and what is wrong. It is basically a problem of principles and ethics when the definition of good and evil are put in question, as it is for Italians. There is a small apparently not meaningful episode which showed the Italian approach. It happened at the beginning of the year, during a football match. For the first time the Italian Serie A tested the goal-line technology, a new generation tool able to understand whether the ball crosses the goal-line. With ASRoma playing in Verona and leading 3-2 against Chievo, the referee man granted a free-kick to Chievo. The striker shot and scored a goal, but it was possible to convalidate it only after have watched the goal-line technology elaboration of the free-kick. In fact the referee man didn't give any goal, then he had to correct himself saying the new score of the match was fixed on 3-3. All the media started reporting that ASRoma was «punished» or «condemned» by technology. Nothing more wrong. No one has been punished, and technology was not responsible fot nothing but making what it has been created for. Technology made clear what was not, avoiding a wrong decision and, as a direct consequence, an eventual unfair defeat. So, what happened is basically fair. People should underline that technology made justice instead of saying it condemned somebody. This clearly shows how in Italy the idea of right and wrong has another nature, well different from that one shared outside the country.
Italy, what's wrong with you? If wrong is really wrong, of course. There is more than an impression about the huge problem Italy has in distinguish between what is right and what is wrong. It is basically a problem of principles and ethics when the definition of good and evil are put in question, as it is for Italians. There is a small apparently not meaningful episode which showed the Italian approach. It happened at the beginning of the year, during a football match. For the first time the Italian Serie A tested the goal-line technology, a new generation tool able to understand whether the ball crosses the goal-line. With ASRoma playing in Verona and leading 3-2 against Chievo, the referee man granted a free-kick to Chievo. The striker shot and scored a goal, but it was possible to convalidate it only after have watched the goal-line technology elaboration of the free-kick. In fact the referee man didn't give any goal, then he had to correct himself saying the new score of the match was fixed on 3-3. All the media started reporting that ASRoma was «punished» or «condemned» by technology. Nothing more wrong. No one has been punished, and technology was not responsible fot nothing but making what it has been created for. Technology made clear what was not, avoiding a wrong decision and, as a direct consequence, an eventual unfair defeat. So, what happened is basically fair. People should underline that technology made justice instead of saying it condemned somebody. This clearly shows how in Italy the idea of right and wrong has another nature, well different from that one shared outside the country.
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