Well said Jim.
Diatribe: a forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something.
Nobody attacked anyone. Dave simply made a point from many many
psychological studies that contradict so peoples anecdotal feelings.
While we can hope that nobody is cheating, we have no way to really know.
Just because people don't agree with something does not mean it is not
happening and I am almost starting to think there are folk out there
intent on misleading people away from these cheating issues. Why?
If nothing is going on then no need to worry, right?
W0MU
On 8/24/2016 11:22 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
On Wed,8/24/2016 7:23 AM, Bill Parry wrote:
I think most of us have had enough of your diatribes. Move on!
I don't view Dave's comments as a diatribe, but rather as an awareness
of human nature. The fact that 4O3A considers it important strongly
suggests that he has good reason to believe that some competitors are
cheating. I think most of us believe that attitudes about right and
wrong are taught to us as we grow up by parents, teachers, religious
leaders, and others we view as leaders. But those views are also
strongly influenced by our circle of friends.
And these attitudes are strongly built into national and regional
cultures. Anyone who has ever worked a JA pileup knows that their
culture is very different from, say, those in an EU pileup, and within
that EU pileup there are huge differences. :)
I believe that Hans accurately gauges the attitudes of his friends,
and I also believe that Ranko and Dave accurately gauge the attitudes
of others. And I think we all know (or at least know of) people who
think that life's rules don't apply to them. Indeed, if you don't, you
either don't get out much or you are REALLY out of touch with reality.
We see it in some business leaders, in those who work for them, in
some politicians, even in so-called religious leaders. Indeed, the
doping that has become widespread in many sports is a really close
comparison to our contests -- "everyone's doing it, so I must to be
competitive."
The real question is how to deal with it. And Ranko, being one of the
truly competitive group of ops, may have a good handle both on what's
going on and how to address it.
73, Jim K9YC
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