I thought the story about the long-distance runner was also quite ridiculous, but not as the author is proposing. If the other runner was dying and you could save them, then yes - one should/must stop to help.
but carrying them across the finish line in a simple high-school track race? Its taking feelings and sentimentalism to a ridiculous level. Its a form of political-correctness. Kids have learned they will never get criticized for being too “caring” even if it is symbolic, pointless, or even harmful.
I don’t agree with Limbaugh that its about “American competitiveness” - its really about applying proper judgement to a situation, and over-the-top emotionalism present in America today.
The young runner was completely correct. Pick up the slow or fallen runners, the faster ones slow down so all cross the finish line at the same time so they all get trophies.
So, she was supposed to triage?
I guess I’m just going to disagree with everybody.
The writer, because s/he’s carping on Rush @ decency, when the policies s/he probably supports have been actively destroying decency and responsibility for decades.
Go to the projects schmuck. THEN come back and gripe about loss of decency.
I didn’t hear Rush, but the runner had the freedom to do what she did too. Didn’t she?
She chose to help.
I for one will not fault her for that.
If a runner collapsed and was dying the officials would stop the race and either finish it from that point or run it again.
The girl that stopped to help said, “it’s not worth a state championship.” Well, la-te-da! Tell that to the coaches and teammates who worked hard to win.
Of course, her finish in this race did not make a difference but that’s not the point.
Way back in my little league days (I was 6 or 7) we were losing a game pretty bad and in the final inning I hit a ground ball to second which was easily caught. I wouldn’t have made a bit of difference in the game and I didn’t run it out to first base.
My coach chewed me out and suspended me for the next game. By today’s standards he’d be the villian but I learned my lesson.