Dr. Maserati said:
I think the highlighted is where you have gone awry in your arguements.
Sticking one in to LA is not necassarily anti-doping.
Particularly as JV did that interview when LA was retired - and he would not have known about the comeback - as far as everyone was concerned we had moved on.
JV is running a clean team, he is not trying to clean up the sport,
You expect JV to talk to a reporter and tell everything he and his various teams did or witnessed- there would be no need for PED tests if it was all that easy.
You bring up BetsyA, who I have enormous respect for - but she only spoke out because she was called to testify.
If JV is called in for this present investigation and hides from the truth, then spineless would probably the nicest word I would say about him.
Let me make clear, I have not gone awry in any way shape or form.
The person who
has gone awry is the subject of this forum.
You always, always, always, do the right thing!
If you don't do the right thing, you are lost. If you don't know what the right thing is, again, you are lost.
One answers honestly once, you don't have the next 4 or 5 years with a festering wound.
I've brought up very on point examples of what it means to do the right thing.
These examples are timeless.
In ancient times, the Romans would go up to the Stoic philosophers and say, "cut your beard off, or we're going to kill you." The Stoics would respond, "you mean this jar of clay and these four quarts of blood.?" "I only have it on loan anyway." "You do what you have to do, and I'll do what I have to do."
Nero would put on plays where he'd try to humiliate the Stoics and other intellectuals.
One day a librarian is summoned to appear in a play, he approaches Epictetus, a Stoic who has also been summoned. If they don't appear, death.
Librarian; What do we do?
Epictetus; You appear, I'm not going to.
Librarian; Why do I appear and not you?
Epictetus; Because you've considered it.
This is what it means to have a Spine.
The Stoics didn't believe in dilemmas. There is no such thing as being between a rock and a hard place, according to them. You assent to what's true and dissent from what's false. You don't concern yourself with stuff out of your control.
John Hancock was another guy that understood what it meant to have a Spine. The guy was a rich playboy his whole life.
He was also a Revolutionary. He could have gone along with the authorities and lived a comfortable life.. Instead he put his giant beautiful signature on the Declaration of Eff You.
You realize, that is what he was saying? Who do you think was the first person they were going to string up if the revolt was crushed?
OTOH, we have Vaughters and his "considerations."
SPINELESS.