If you are a high school Coach and find your team matched against a team that is obviously FAAAAAR below the skill level of your team, what "honor" is there in proving the obvious for 100 points in order to humiliate your opponent 100 - 0?
It is like the 150 pound 10th Grade schoolyard bully beating the cr@p out of the 95 pound 7th Grader just to pump up his own fragile ego.
What "honor" is there in that?
"Wanna see me punch the 7th Grader? Wanna see it again? Wanna see it again? Wanna see it again? Wanna see it again? Wanna see it again? Wanna see it again? Wanna see it again? Wanna see it again? Wanna see it again? Wanna see it again? Wanna see it again? Wanna see it again? Wanna see it again?"
What "honor" is there in such cowardice?
The baseball Coach knew there was no honor in such a cowardly farce. That is why he honorably declined to accept a forfeit win for the second game. The baseball Coach did not need to dishonorably puff up his fragile ego by repeatedly beating the cr@p out of the sports equivalent of a 95 pound 7th Grader.
Such honorable conduct used to be called "Sportsmanship".
The basketball Coach shamed himself and he shamed the school as he represented the school. The girls on the team were young, immature, inexperienced and "were just following orders" from an adult that should have acted his age. At least they have an excuse for a display of sportsmanship that was lower than whale scat at the bottom of the ocean.
Once upon a time in America, sportsmen knew that deliberately running up the score to humiliate your opponent was low class and dishonorable.
Maybe those days are long gone.
Doc, if your hospital ever issues a statement to the press calling you “shameful” for saving an excessive number of lives, I know you will not worry much about publicly contradicting them, and losing your now suddenly worthless job.
Saving a life usually has an intrinsic value. "Scorng a point", in sports or intellectually, may have either a positive or a negative value depending on the circumstances.
Medicine is not a game like basketball, but it can be made into a game.
Each specialist is better at his field than others whose expertise lies somewhere else. That is a given.
During Grand Rounds or at a teaching conference it is very easy for a certain specialist to ask another physician specialty questions that the other physician does not know and make him look ignorant in public, ........ again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again.
Okay .... So the orthopaedic surgeon knows squat about the proper management of an ectopic pregnancy and he does not know a quantatative beta hCG level from an intracranial bleed.
How many times do you have to try to make him look ignorant in public to show how brilliant you are before you figure out that you are actually making a fool and an ass out of yourself?
Such a display does not enhance your professional reputation.
Such a dishonorable display drags your professional reputation through the mud.
“Scorng a point”, in sports ... may have either a positive or a negative value depending on the circumstances.”
It’s OK to let up on the other team if your team is winning easily, but it is not required. Playing by the rules is required. To hell with politically-correct liberalism that is poisoning our formerly great nation!