JuanCarlos
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If your intended on subjecting your self to grave injury, What is the difference? Maybe your both Sorry shots!
Except that a motocross rider, or football player, does not intend to subject themselves to great injury. Nor do they generally intend to gravely injure others...generally if it's found out that they did cause grave bodily harm to another player intentionally, they are sanctioned and possibly kicked out of the sport (in some instances I believe they can be criminally charged as well). There is an acceptance of risk, but at no point is the grave injury or death of players intended.
Even in a boxing match (which I brought up as a slightly more relevant example) the actual point of the match is not to maim or kill the other boxer; it's merely to win by decision or knock them unconscious. If a boxer appears to be at great risk of actually being maimed or killed, the fight can actually be stopped by the officials.
Even so, it can be argued that the entire point of a boxing match is to injure (though not kill, and not maim) your opponent...and in fact there have been calls to ban boxing for this very reason. Some countries have actually done so.
Interestingly, while the actual point of boxing is to injure your opponent I believe it actually has a lower fatality rate than some other popular sports (such as football). Though the injury rate (particularly brain damage) is likely higher.
Sending your son into a little league ball game could be construed as child endangerment.
If you did so without taking the proper precautions (equipment, rules) to prevent grave injury, yes it sure could. And likely would.
No one intends on getting maimed, or broken in a football game , but the possibilities are high!
Where do you draw the line?
Well lets see. Considering the risk of grave bodily harm (or death) during a football game is an order of magnitude or two lower than that during a dueling match where two people are firing pistols at each other...I don't know, maybe somewhere in the gaping expanse between the two?
Your entire line of reasoning is absurd.