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Originally Posted by Corral
Sure but how can we truly ever know someone's motivation? You and others are pinning me to the cross on commenting about Jagr's motivations because its based on distant observation, and all i'm saying is that everything we talk about here on CP is based on observation at some distance - however close it may be to the source. Indeed even if Jagr himself told us about his motivations, only he would truly know what they really are - he might tell us what he thinks we want to hear. So in the end its all speculation at some level - not some is fruitful discussion and other is BS.
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There is a pretty clear difference between speculating on hockey related matters vs a player's personal thoughts or motivations.
You said yourself that we can't know another person's motivations. I agree. So why bother speculating?
Conversely, we can have fairly detailed conversations about a player's skating ability, age, playing style, past production, etc. These are topics that invite discussion.
How are you not seeing the difference here?