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Seen at BJOL, still $3 a month:
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I'll never understand why more fans fail to be interested in this type of Life Lesson available in sports. :- )
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It hadn't occured to me, that *I* see greenies as kind of cute, but steroids as slightly and vaguely sinister. And so it obviously hadn't occurred to me, that my own view of "justice" was necessarily warped.
Sometimes you think it is impossible for human beings to weigh justice fairly. Who, exactly, calibrates the punishment for Ray Rice? So that it both:
- Protects society's interests to the maximum possible extent
- Shows the same compassion, and nuanced emphathy, to Ray Rice that we'd want in his shoes
Sometimes you're amazed at how well the U.S. justice system works, compared to lynch mob mentality. We said, "sometimes": Mojician could be listening.
Here's a case in point from BJOL:
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All we can do, is be aware that there are 1,000 light bulbs out there, and we've only got about 100 on per person. How a U.S. court of law works so well, so often, I have no idea. It's like the problem of consciousness :- ) ... why should the cells in your brain, themselves unconscious, add up to form a collective that is itself conscious?
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Anyway: the Legion of Boom seemed to teeter on the brink, when first targeted for termination based on 'roid use. Later, it seemed (to NinersNation.com) to teeter on the brink, when the NFL passed rules against physical secondary play.
Rumors of their death turned out to be exaggerated. They were in fact good players.
Nelson Cruz was harshly judged by "impartial observers." Rumors of his death turned out to be exaggerated also. He was in fact a good player.
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