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...playing college football, you were somewhat of a star in high school, and a lot of guys played under the lights in this kind of environment,’” senior cornerback Steven Williams said. “This is our star treatment. This is a treat, it’s a blessing.” COMMITTEE MEETINGThe lights didn’t help Harvard’s running game. The Crimson mustered 113 yards on 41 carries, an average of 2.8 per play, but nearly half those yards came from scrambles and designed runs by senior quarterback...
Parents have to be in charge. TV should be a treat, not something kids watch from the moment they get out of school until they...
...student, something of a computer geek, who trained as an accountant and liked to sing and write songs. But he was a stern headmaster, canceling an annual snow-sculpture contest because it smacked of idolatry. Doe recalled his lessons about proper conduct. Girls and boys were to treat each other "as though they were snakes," she said. "There was nothing permitted romantically." Leaving the matchmaking up to the prophet "frees you completely from all the terrible mistakes girls can make," Jeffs said. His motto: Perfect obedience produces perfect faith, which produces perfect people...
That's the dirty little secret about sports fans. We're basically amoral. Kant said that acting ethically means treating other people as ends in and of themselves, not merely as means to our own desires. But that's exactly how fans treat coaches and players. We want them to win because when they do, we bask in the glory. Supporting a winner makes us feel like winners. A few years back, an Indiana University researcher showed that when Indiana won, avid fans actually grew more confident that they could get dates...
...even worse than that, because fans don't treat just the players on opposing teams as means rather than ends; they treat their own players the same way. Sports are often compared to war. The team is our army, battling for our honor. But there's a key twist: the players aren't citizen-soldiers; they're mercenaries. They can be bought, bartered and sold, and once they are, they go from heroes to enemies. They're valued only when they wear the uniform. And once they hang it up for good, we stop caring about them, except when they...