Mundus Vult wrote:
the grand inquisitor wrote:If you can't acknowledge that cheating is a spectrum and that there are a multitude of severities, that not every offense is equal, then there is no point in trying to engage in a rational discussion with you on the matter. Good day.
Seriously? I ask you to enunciate a rational basis for distinguishing Frank Shorter's cheating from Lance Armstrong's and you leave the conversation?
How is cheating a spectrum? I constantly hear from all the anti-doping stalwarts that "cheating is cheating."
Christ
Will you shut the fvck up.
You magically appear in every thread that has the word Shorter and doping. You are obsessed with trying to bring the guy down. Did he bang your girlfriend or something?
Using your logic, people who speed should not speak out against murder (another crime).
Speeders and murderers both broke the law. It would be hypocritical for the former to criticize the latter's actions since he broke the law himself. Breaking the law is breaking the law.
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Of course, only a fool fails to see the ridiculous implications of this logic, i.e., failing to acknowledge that there is a spectrum upon which you need to judge actions.
What's more, Frank is speaking out against doping, not against accepting money. There is no hypocrisy.
Accepting money does not take a minute off your marathon PR. Doping is an enormous advantage to performance. Accepting money after the race is over does not aid the race.
Your posts are tiresome. Of course, I fully expect you to come back at me and give some ridiculously reasoned explanation for why I'm wrong since about a third of the posts in this thread are yours.
Have at it.