It never worked when my parents punished all three of us when only one of us
misbehaved. It just gave us another thing to fight about.
Track is an individual sport. The non-offending players can still compete
fairly There will probably be a day when officials will just give up and let
athletes ruin their bodies if that's what they want to do.
Abby.
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Subject: [blind-democracy] I'm boycotting the summer olympics
I'm boycotting the summer Olympics.
2 reasons:
1. I will not support games that are held in a nation in which a coup has
removed the democratically elected president.
2. I refuse to honor the decision of the Olympic Committee in banning the
entire Russian Olympic team rather than punishing the offenders.
This primitive system of "teaching them a lesson by punishing them all" has
been proven to create more trouble than it solves. If we are to support the
banning of an entire nation for drug abuse, then we should follow up by calling
off the Olympic Games, to "teach all participants a lesson".
In America's professional sports, an athlete caught drugging is banned from the
game. And the team continues to play. Under the Olympic Committee's model,
the entire team should be "taught a lesson" and be banned for the remainder of
the season.
But still, my major objection is that by holding the Olympic Games in Rio, the
nations of the world are endorsing a government that came into power through a
coup.
We Americans in the good old USA, should know first hand what happens when the
presidency is stolen from the people. Our own Supreme Court handed the Office
over to a second place, third rate candidate, George
Bush II. And look where that got us.
Carl Jarvis
