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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
You're really going to have to get over this.
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Really? I don't believe I have to do anything but stay white and die.
Since when does "everyone does it" make something right? I stand firm by my belief that you don't change someone's quote. If you don't understand that, you're easily missing how someone can be easily misrepresented by doing so.
The next time you say something, and someone else completely changes it, you'll get it.
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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
And you're missing mbyron's point. It's the players' actions that determine the game. Making the calls that need to be made does not affect the game.
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Don't you believe it.
Our actions affect the game, period, which is why our jobs are so important, and why accuracy and proper rules application are vital. To simply say that what we do doesn't matter, as long as we do it right, is a load. We need to do it right BECAUSE our actions affect the outcome.
We can affect a game correctly or negatively. Your example of personal philsophies is certainly an example of negatively affecting a game, but there are more ways to affect an outcome than negatively. That's certainly not to say that we need to look to affect a game's outcome -- such actions would be represensible -- we just need to do our jobs.
Everything we do is cause and effect. Generally speaking, the cause is a rules infraction, and the effect is a penalty. When someone says "the ref had an effect on the outcome," what they're really saying is, "the ref had a NEGATIVE effect on the outcome." Causes and effects are ever-present, despite some perceptions.