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To: Paul Atreides
If defeating an opponent in a game is a sin, wouldn't that make checkers a sin?

It would go farther than that and actually I can see socialist/communist fodder here. You shouldn't get that promotion over Fred as that would be a triumph, you shouldn't send your kids to a better school than Phil, you shouldn't drive a nicer car, have nicer stuff, basically any and all competition in which there is a winner and a loser even when the competition is not formal. After all life itself is a great competition.

46 posted on 02/03/2003 8:40:50 AM PST by amused
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To: amused
This attitude that competition and winning are bad is fairly common. How many youth sports leagues have we heard of where the kids aren't allowed to keep score in the interest of enhancing their self-esteem (but most of them do, anyway, because it matters to them whether they won or lost)?
50 posted on 02/03/2003 8:50:19 AM PST by mountaineer
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To: amused
I can see socialist/communist fodder here. You shouldn't get that promotion over Fred as that would be a triumph, you shouldn't send your kids to a better school than Phil, you shouldn't drive a nicer car, have nicer stuff, basically any and all competition ...

The root problem is theological. How unfair that you go to heaven, while some other guy goes to hell? They're mad at God because He rewards virtue, and punishes evil -- they'd rather have a world, and a universe, free from responsibility. They're also mad at God for differentially distributing innate talents, as it hurts their pride when someone else is better than themselves. Since ALL human competitions reward either virtue, or talent, or both, these people can't stand competition. It implicitly reminds them of Someone they'd rather forget.

77 posted on 02/03/2003 12:04:31 PM PST by Rytwyng
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