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Originally Posted by Old School
The truth is, how can i deviate from a rule I never knew.
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I don't have any need to condemn you. I do feel a compunction to correct your erroneous interpretations. That said, if the above quote was an accurate representation of your part in this debate, it wouldn't have come nearly this far. You've stated flatly in this discussion that you would do what you want in spite of the rule; because you think it's more fair.
Okay, let me lay this out a bit differently. Leaving aside morally neutral behavior and motives, there are four possibilities:
1. Doing the right thing for right motives.
2. Doing the wrong thing for wrong motives.
3. Doing the right thing for wrong motives.
4. Doing the wrong thing for right motives.
Example of #1: Calling a kid for traveling because he did.
Example of #2: Ignoring clear basketball rules (such as traveling) because you want to get home early and catch the latest Tyson fight from prison.
Example of #3: Becoming a basketball official because you think the cheerleaders are hot.
Example of #4: Ignoring clear basketball rules because you think they aren't fair.
The point is not that motive is comletely irrelevant. The point is that motive is irrelevant when determining whether a given action is "the right thing" or not.
And drop all the martyr references, would you? No one here wants to burn any crosses in your yard. Go look up the word "hyperbole."