[CQ-Contest] R: RE: My RED CARD - IT9GSF

[David Gilbert]

I've sometimes posted here before on the topic of cheating and the 
various reasons/mentalities behind it.  There are several of them and 
most have different roots, but one thing that is common to all of them 
is the amazing ability of humans to rationalize bad behavior.  It's 
almost like people lose objectivity once they've decided to break a 
rule.  I've even read things that suggest it's a natural human defense 
mechanism for coping with the ambiguous situations we regularly find 
ourselves in.  I suspect that those who don't have some capability to 
rationalize eventually go mad ... or at least get diagnosed as being 
obsessive-compulsive.

Fabio's post is a pretty good case in point (in fact, his 
rationalizations bother me greatly) but it most certainly is not a 
unique example.  Anyone who thinks they are immune to this in their life 
is kidding themselves ... it's all just a matter of place and degree.

73,
Dave   AB7E



On 4/9/2013 12:11 AM, Braco OE1EMS wrote:
> Fabio,
>
> there is no reason to be angry and Brian have 100% right
>
> If you violated rules by mistake even deliberately you had choice to avoid
> problems you get into
> sending your log into other category, sending your log as check log or ask
> contest organizer what to do?
>
> But what did you do? You change your log to fit into MS even you know this
> is wrong!
> Now after log checker discovered rule violation you talking about wrong log
> file :)
> Hard to believe.....
> I am pretty sure if no one look at your log and you were in results,
> you were not complaining about it, even you know it was wrong!
>
> So far I can see you just wanted to avoid RED CARD because of WRTC
> participation  and after no success
> with contest organizer now you are bothering WRTC director with it!
>
> It was your decision and you could act different, now be man took the
> consequences !!
>
>
> 73s
> Braco
>