Word: compassionate
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Rape at Harvard will not cease to be an issue once the last murmurs from the coverage of the recent alleged incident die down. It is a subject that must be fought with information and compassion, not passivity and ignorance.
Two recent episodes, one in professional golf and one in women's college basketball, demonstrate the remarkable inroads made into sports by liberal compassion, the only virtue acknowledged in our society today. The episodes bode ill for the magnificence of sports.
First, let us travel to America's finest country clubs and a courtroom in Eugene, Oregon. Casey Martin is a young professional golfer on the Nike Tour, the professional Golf Association's (PGA) equivalent of the minor leagues. Martin also has a rare circulatory disorder that makes it difficult for...
Compassion provides the justification for Martin's cart and Sales's lay-up, showing just how monolithic the sense of compassion has become in our society. This is not to slight Martin or Sales; by all accounts, both are tremendous individuals and devoted athletes. But both fell victim to unfortunate...
Rather than accept their misfortune with sobriety and grace, both sought to overcome it illegitimately. That is to say, both broke the standards of their respective sports. That athletes would have such an urge is not surprising. That the domineering sense of compassion allowed them to indulge their urge is...