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Category: Sports & Entertainment
Tags: fair play, sports, winning
Background information: http://msn.foxsports.com
Notes: An American girls basketball team has been criticised for scoring a 100-0 victory over a team from a school for children with learning disabilities. They have apologised.
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  Support:
 -24.2%
Points:
Fair play in sports is more important than winning  
  • but: winning is glorious and brings with it a certain cachet  

    • but: winning doesn't mean anything if you do not have to exert a lot of effort to win  

      • but: winning is not only about winning, it is about the winning margin  

  • because: fair play exemplifies sportsmanship  

    • but: fair play and sportsmanship are different things  

      • because: sportsmanship concerns considering the feelings of the other players  

        • but: the winning team lacked sportsmanship  

          • because: it is un-christian to take advantage of the disadvantaged  

        • because: there is no evidence that the feelings of the losing team were hurt  

      • because: fair play concerns obeying the rules of the sport  

        • because: the winning team in the story followed the rules and therefore played fair (msn.foxsports.com) 

    • but: winning also exhibits sportsmanship  

      • but: lopsided wins like 100:0 make the winners look like bullies  

        • but: Even if it is bullies, it does not mean breaking the rule is acceptable.  

        • because: the losing team showed more character by persevering  

        • because: they lost respect for running up a score to humiliate their opponents  

          • but: there is no evidence that they deliberately tried to humiliate their opponents - it is more that they were aiming for 100  

            • but: even if the intent is not there, the effect is still the same---humiliating!!  

        • because: they are obviously not evenly matched  

          • because: the opponents knew that they were not evenly matched due to their multi-season losing record, but chose to play anyway  

          • because: their opponents do not have the same athletic prowess  

      • because: great athletes are at the top of their game  

        • because: they must be disciplined to devote themselves to practice  

  • because: promoting good sportsmanship is a form of moral education (Associated Press (2009) ) 

  • because: winning is meaningless without fair playing in sports  -16.13%

  • because: sports should be played for fun and fitness purposes  -32.26%

    • but: sports are not only for fun, they should be played to teach discipline, hard work, meritocracy, competitiveness and being a good loser  +32.26%

      • but: Sports become a commercial act instead of a game. Winning can bring them huge amount of income  


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