Wednesday, January 30, 2013

point at the cheaters and laugh

all these cheating athletes, what are we gonna do about them?

point and laugh. laugh hard and long. make sure your laugh is heard. laughter is contagious. keep laughing till the person next to you gets in on the joke and starts to laugh also. cuz at this point, what else can we do but shame the cheaters? how else can we discourage cheating in the future? is cheating worth the money they make? i'm gonna go with.... probably. and yea, that's sorta sad i suppose, but when you're cashing million dollar paydays, who gives a fuck what the public finds sad. 

cheating will continue to happen in sports. it will always be worth the risk. we can talk about honor and legacy and halls of fame, but none of that can buy you a boat or a jet ski. it's like that one daniel tosh joke goes, no one is ever not happy when they're on a jet ski. it's obvious that anyone who's willing to cheat is willing to risk throwing away their "legacy." who needs a legacy when you can just paint the word on the side of your yacht?

we can only attempt to shame the cheaters and let them know that we think they're inadequate and weak for cheating. and if all the shaming never takes hold with the current crop of professional athletes, hopefully it'll have some sort of effect for future athletes. hopefully shaming and laughing and turning the names of cheating athletes into the butt of our jokes will develop into a social norm. how else can we drive this point into our collective consciousness? we have no choice but to mark the cheaters as damaged goods and expel them from the tribe. 


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