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Originally Posted by valo403
This isn't remotely comparable nor relevant. Try again.
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How is it not? This may not be all the athletes livelyhood, but it is a goal they spend the majority of their time trying to attain. I'll use a different example and compare it to a university degree. It's not our livelyhood. Its something you work years for and spend thousands of dollars on, hoping that it might give you an edge over others.
So I just graduated with an Econ degree not long ago. If someone came to me afterwords and said:
Them - "Great job! Now, your degree is completely void for this year. And you can't use it for the next four years. By then there will be better candidates for the jobs you want. And you will liekly have to move on to something else."
Me - "Well that's BS, why is it void?"
Them - "Because gays aren't allowed in Russia"
Me - "ummm..... Not seeing the correlation"
Them - "Well to protest, were not going to let any of our new top graduates enter the workforce."
Me - "Yeah, I'm cool if you want to be gay, but I would still like my life skills to be valid."
Them - "Nope sorry, this is important"
Me - "No argument here, just not sure what it has to do with my field."
Them - "So you're against human rights?"
Me - "No, just thinking you might be better served to have diplomacy handling this rather than a bunch of kids who just want to do their thing. Like maybe our leader should talk with theirs?"
Meanwhile, Russia's economists dreams all come true, and gays continue to be persecuted because no one cares that Canada's economists are protesting, outside of Canadians.
I think EE's question is valid. Would you give up your life long dream to send an ulimately futile message? I'm not saying that no one will notice, but the only way this changes is from inside Russia itself. And sadly, it will be at the expense of quite a few gay people I would think. Just like woman's rights, black peoples rights, and all those before that have faced persecution, THEY are the only ones who can truely cause change.
It's tough to get this point across without sounding like I'm completely apathetic towards the situation, but its more of a feeling that while the sentiment is honorable, the proposed delivery is misguided IMO.