MarkvW said:But what if (before, during, and after Lance) almost the entire pro peloton is either composed of "doping, lying scumbags" or the people who support them? Is any support of such "sport" morally justifiable under such circumstances? Are not all the fans of such a filthy sport complicit with the "lying, doping scumbags" to one degree or another?
You are parading all sorts of moral absolutes at the Lance Fanboy while your own moral position is vulnerable to the exact same attack. Don't you have to ask yourself why you support a sport that depends on systematic dopers and kills some of them? And for you to call somebody else nasty is exquisitely rich. I doubt you can resist the impulse to be nasty in your response to me. I'm still smarting from your last insult.
Well, in fact, we should all given up the sport years ago, if not form the beginning.
In the end what counts are the particular instances, from which one formulates what remains within the realm of "tolerability." Taking for granted that there are no moral absolutes.
On the other hand, there are simply times when it is necessary to call a spade a spade.
