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The bad question, why do people cheat?
Okay, first off, lets leave "Professional" racers out of this. There is money involved and shit happens when money gets involved.
Now, we race and all there is, is some worthless coffee mug as a trophy for placing. So why do you think people take the time and effort to cheat at a race?
I heard a good thoughtful conversation on it recently and I wonder what your thoughts are on it.
So why do people do it?
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That takes a good deal of rationalization, cognitive dissonance, win-at-all-costs, narcissism etc. They are definitely lacking some psychological needs as well.
live off mom and dadmake a living doing the sport, but that's probably intellectually lazy and not as relevant as we might like to think. I'm not sure it's all that different. As much as we want to think athletic endeavors are different and pure, they really aren't any different from the rest of life. If anything, the more tangible outcomes available (one of the major selling points of athletics as a hobby!) make the incentive to cheat greater than most other aspects of life.People do awful things, from being terribly rude to strangers on dating apps, to lying on taxes, to cutting the course in an Ironman, to cheating on their spouses, to knowingly spreading false information that conforms with their own weltanschauung (take that Germanization, BPF).
I think it's always been that way, people being awful. The difference it's just that now it's easier to leave our own little bubbles, both because it's easier to actually leave one's own bubble, and oversharing makes people send a lot more things outside their bubbles to be heard, intentionally or inadvertently. Sometimes intentionally publicize negative things they're actually anonymous, sometimes they think they're anonymous and then get found out, and other times because they're just straight up sociopaths who now have a voice because somebody accidentally stumbles on their tweet or comment or share, where previously nobody would have ever seen or heard from them.
Don't take this as me being nihilist, cynical, pessimistic...or whatever else you want to call it. I still actually do believe people are generally good, but I'm also just not surprised when anybody is terrible. Maybe the lesson here is that people can be good, but no human is to be held to such a significantly higher standard because, well, we're human (I don't intend for that last statement to come out as a religious angle, but it's probably reworkable into one if you need something after the next high-profile scandal, @PreachSwanson )
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2: Because they think that they can get away with it
3: Because they think that if they're thinking about cheating, others are too and doing it
4: Because life is unfair for them and others have unfair advantages: better genetics, better training, better kit and it's levelling the playing field
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5. They were inadvertently locked in Webstey's office once.
6: something to do with #1-4 or #5.
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