Tommy john was a pitcher for the los angeles dodgers and the yankees. The jesuits would say, wait, this is a novel problem. Baseball players using genetically engineered hormons to heal injuries isn't something that's happened before our set of existing principles do not help us. This is a time for casuistry. So are there standard cases out there? Something reasonably analogous that we all agree on, to help us make sense of this novel problem? It turns out there are. Standard case number one, a pitcher named tommy john. Not that it matters, but if you're going to go jesuit on matters of baseball, maybe it's more
Revisionist History tries to make sense of the conundrum of PED use in baseball, using the 500-year-old philosophical techniques of St. Ignatius. Part one of a three-part series on the moral reasoning of the Jesuit order.
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