Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 07:51:11 01/27/04
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On January 27, 2004 at 08:01:32, Daniel Clausen wrote: >>I very much adhere to the "guilty unless proven" principle. > >Replace guilty with innocent! Shoot! That was the most stupid mistake I could >have done in a post like this I guess. :p And no, it's NOT a Freudian slip! ;) > >Sargon But anyway, you take it too serious. First of all the HEINZ proposal was not ok. Think about it for a minute. Say Fritz had said yes. That would have meant that the tournament directors would have allowed Fritz to further participate in the event - ALTHOUGH the situation with these allegations would have been the same as before. You know what I mean? That the tournament directors would have tolerated. But Fritz could still have been guilty. But because he had accepted a later meeting, after the event, the innocence would have been assumened. But Fritz didn't answer at all. Hint: he was in his examinations! Now this was taken so seriously that suddenly the delay that was possible in principal, was now no longer possible to accord. Now Daniel I ask you why! Why wasn't it possible to let Fritz participate and then LATER put the ultimatum on him. Then it a) wouldn't have influenced the tournament and b) Fritz could have done his examinations without disturbance. I give you my answer why this wasn't possible. It all had to do with a false imagination of importance of the TDs. They wouldn't have lost any authority if that topic would have been researched AFTER the event. But they thought that this was impossible to tolerate. But I say that the examinations were no delusion. And everybody who ever had done such a time, he knows that the stress factor is extremely high. This is excuse enough for Fritz Reul. Period. But the other question is still open "clone or not clone". What is if it is NOT a clone? This has also something to do with human dignity. If the rule innocent until PROVEN guilty is still valid then we should treat Fritz Reul with much more respect also because he had had a hard time during his examinations. Even if he were guilty we then also could assure that we dont kill the whole status of a human being. Even if it were a clone, Fritz would be a talented programmer because he must have changed a lot in Crafty. Since the code is a lot smaller. It would then be playing a trick but not at all a crime. Or do you disagree? Overall I must sum up that a different decision would have been better for the tournament, better for the examinations and also better for the human being Fritz Reul, guilty or innocent. Rolf
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