Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:58:14 12/19/03
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On December 19, 2003 at 05:42:46, Sune Fischer wrote: >On December 19, 2003 at 04:59:19, martin fierz wrote: >>>No it isn't. This is what Omid tried to turn it into, but it is _not_. >>>None of the logic stuff applies here. The statement is simply taken at >>>face value... >> >>yes it is. oh, we are down to "no ist isn't" and "yes it is" :-) >> >>we are talking about GCPs simple sentence that he disagrees with the reasoning >>but doesn't find the decision unreasonable. you say this sentence is impossible >>to understand. >> >>that is the context. forget about omid. forget about graz. >> >>e.g. say a guy runs over and kills a pedestrian in his car when he's drunk, and >>during the investigation the police finds out that he evaded taxes in the >>millions of $$$. in most western countries the guy will go to prison because he >>evaded taxes, not because he hit someone with his car and that person died. now >>for me that is completely unreasonable (i think killing someone is worse than >>evading taxes), but the final result, the guy ends up in prison, is the same as >>i would have decided. >> >>cheers >> martin > >But the question "is it possible to do the right thing for the wrong reasons?", >isn't so easy to answer just by using logic. > >There is an aura of ethics and principles surrounding it :) > >If we judge a man to go to prison for a murder he didn't do, but in fact >commited one nobody knows about, do you think the judgement is correct? > >-S. There is more to it than that. The final decision was _clearly_ wrong if all that is considered is the written rules. So either other reasons were good enough to violate a written rule, or the decision to violate the written rules was simply wrong. He didn't agree with any of the reasoning used to violate tournament rules. Therefore, how could one agree with a decision that directly violates rules being used?
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