steadygetyerboots-on wrote:
Just out of interest; where do you personally draw the line? Is there a line?
Oh there's a line. Plenty of them, in fact. The problem is they are mutually exclusive and inherently linked to particular frames of thought and experience.
For example, let's say I were wearing my socially responsible head I'd opine,
"Absolutely. Morality is a depressingly rare commodity in RL and we should do everything in our power to foster its growth at all turns. Consequently I shall place "the line" all the way up here..."But if this were match day and I instead had on my ruthlessly professional head I'd probably bark,
"Are you CRAZY? This is a zero-sum game. Win or lose. Like a war. Anyone who has studied military strategy knows that unless you are fully committed to fighting and winning a war you have no business entering such. I'll be moral to the Pie Eaters only after we've buried them deep in the cold, cold ground. With this in mind I shall place "the line" all the way down there..."Then if this were some time midweek, after a satisfying lunch, and I'm wearing my Science-and-Philosophy-are-cool head, I'd likely argue that
"Morality does have a place in sport. But the introduction of such should never be willy nilly or in the service of the irrational forces of populism and instead warranted on a case-by-case basis and only as the end result of intelligent, sophisticated and rational debate. One "line" is almost as bad as no lines at all and I will thusly draw such here, here and here..."And so on and so forth ...
Does that answer your question?
