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

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

This same thing happens in online gaming.  Cheaters are found and banned 
and then post to forums trying to get sympathy for the cause and like 
what we saw here nearly everyone sides against the banned player.

Is it the people or they way we teach and what we are told over and over 
that there is always someone else or something else to blame.

Most people would easily be forgiven or given a second chance , if they 
just took the high road and said yep I blew it, what I did was wrong and 
I hope that I have learned my lesson and will strive to follow the rules 
in the future.  Instead we get laundry lists of EXCUSES why rules had to 
be broken.

It is a sad commentary on society.

Mike W0MU

On 4/9/2013 1:28 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
>
> 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
>>
>
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