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Originally Posted by jammies
I think you're the one who doesn't understand your own argument. You are anthropomorphizing "football program" as if it is some kind of independent entity. See your quote below:
That's so sloppy it's worthy of every bit of derision I can heap upon it. The "football program" doesn't exist apart from the people running it, and their collective understanding of its purposes, goals, and rules. It has no independent volition, it's not a philosophical position, and it doesn't "perpetrate any actions". That you don't see how this undercuts your entire argument, shows that you aren't really arguing so much as reiterating your assumptions in different forms.
Again, the idea that football concerns should trump all other concerns is where the root of this cover-up came from, and the best way to demonstrate that this isn't so is to end, or at least suspend, football at Penn State. Yes, this will greatly upset the alumni, and the student body, and the staff, and the local economy, but far more importantly, it will demonstrate that football, in the grand scheme of life, is a freakin' game, not a sacred institution whose practitioners are above morality and question.
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My thoughts exactly...just said in a much more articulate way than I could ever say it. Shut that whole program down for a year and show the people of that community that it is a damn game, not a religion. How on earth does a guy stay coach of a team for that long? Dictators have come and gone and this guy is still the coach?
College football programs in the States are like a religion with a very strict church.