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Originally posted by BktBallRef
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Originally posted by LarryS
Ok, time to throw out the statement that makes my kids want to hit me...Where is it written that life will be fair?
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I can understand why your kids would feel that way, especially if that's the only answer you can offer them. Although there's some truth to the question, it's a great question to ask without being totalliy apathetic. It's like saying, "Why should I care if it's unfair?"
But we aren't talking about making life fair, are we? We're talking about changing an insitution that has inequities. There's a difference. But I guess most pacifists would rather just leave things they way they are, no matter how wrong things may be.
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First, if you have children you should understand that when you spend 20 minutes explaining your reason behind the unfavorable answer and your child yells "THAT'S NOT FAIR.", it is the best and most appropriate answer.
Now, more importantly I must point out that not everyone thinks the rules are wrong! I'm sure you have heard the stories of athletes getting paid large sums of money to mow an artifical turf field.
These students are getting an opportunity at an education worth THOUSANDS of dollars. Now you want to propose taking on-campus jobs away from students who need them to survive and slightly minimize the huge debt they will be facing at graduation and give them to someone getting free tuition, free room and board and free books just so they can have spending money?
Ohhhh, they can work off campus. Now Mr. Highroller Allum will take a job away from a kid in the city and give it to the star QB and pay him an astronomical wage.
Ohhhh, you want to cap their earnings? How long before one of the jocks files a lawsuit against the NCAA for restraint of trade?
What if there are not enough "extra" jobs in the community for ALL the athletes (male and female)? Discrimination lawsuit begging to be filed!
If they need spending money that bad, let them sell that new Trans-Am and use public transportation. By the way, how does that single mom afford such a nice car? Shouldn't she have bought a Kia so she would have enough to send Junior $50 a week of party money?