[greymule]

I guess the philosophical question is, Are you assisting someone if the person does not do what you are trying to assist him in?

Suppose, on a fly ball to F9, a runner tags up at 3B, runs halfway down the line, and then decides to go back. The coach runs out into the baseline and tries to stop the runner from returning, but the runner simply bowls the coach over and returns to 3B, did the coach "commit" a physical assist?

Maybe Hegel dealt with this question somewhere. Anybody recall?