At 08:44 PM 1/20/2003 -0600 Dan Minette wrote:
>> Silly me for thinking that they were still playing a game out there, and
>> deciding whether or not to respect certain participants in that game
>> based
>> on the way they played the game.
>
>I thought of another thing. As an employee, isn't a coach honor bound to
>maximize the profit of the owners by whatever means he can?
Uhhhhh......... No.
And I think that you recognize that your own analogy is ridiculous.
For example, let's say that you are the manager of a privately held
corporation. You know that your owner will be selling the corporation in
six months. Would you truly be honorbound to do something legal, yet that
you felt was unethical, in order to maximize the selling price in six
months? Say, would you be honorbound to produce misleading
advertisements that would boost sales? For example, I received an
official looking envelope yesterday from the "INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE tax
return filing corp." The caps letters were in large print, and the
lowercase letters of the returna ddress were in tiny print. As another
example, I saw a television advertisement that was text rolling on a
background instructing "All Senior Citizens should have received
information about a new perscription drug benefit program in the mail, and
if you have not received this information you should call this number
immediately." At the bottom of the advertisement was tiny print that
"this is a non-governmental program." Are these actions of an
honor-bound individual? You know better than that, I think.
And then, of course, there is the "boy who cried wolf effect" of using the
League rules regarding injuries for a competitive advantage. Quite
frankly, its disgusting......
JDG
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