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by potatosareok
3404 days ago
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Beyond this post, you might be interested in another post in the blog: http://www.marathoninvestigation.com/2017/01/WhyIcheated.htm.... The blogger interviews someone he caught cheating in a pretty benign fashion about why he cheated. From that article, and my perspective on it, the answer to: > That would be hard thing to live with it seems Is the choice is not between 1) My great life
2) My greater life, with some compliments
but 1) My life that I don't feel great about
2) My life that I don't feel great about, with some compliments now
Where "my life" is how I'm feeling at that particular moment. I am impressed that to you this concept seems so foreign, for me I can definitely recall moments that people overstated the importance of things I've done and I've accepted the compliments because it made me feel better at times I was feeling down. This to me seems like a minor leap from what I've done.I've run marathons in the past and my times were awful but back then I was generally a happier person. If I were to be running a marathon today and somehow the timers marked me an hour faster then I really was for example, I might not correct them. |
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People are more likely to draw the moral line in the sand when the error in your favour goes so far as to bump a legitimate winner off the podium. Your scenario above regarding "[...] with some compliments now" seems more in line with "just a slightly better time in the middle of the pack."
I appreciate your willingness to be open and honest about how you'd handle a less egregious situation, but I doubt you'd go this far based on the relative positioning you've outlined.