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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
You don't need to have personally gone through something to be able to comment about it in policy terms. That's an absurd standard that I reject whenever it's applied. If your experience allows you to offer a perspective that others lack, you're encouraged to provide it and it may influence the debate and hopefully give others the benefit of that perspective in arriving at their own views, but others' lack of such experience does not mean they should keep their mouths shut on the subject. We'll never be able to have any conversations about anything, if that's the standard.
Incidentally, as none of us have never been NHL players as far as I'm aware, it would also result in this forum having to be immediately shut down...
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Okay, Policybot 5000, I'm aware of all that. Sometimes, however, people can have a discussion that's related but adjacent to the policy, as opposed to directly applicable to the policy. I guess I'm saying I'm going to give more weight to those who have actually gone through the process, as well as the research supporting GSAs, than I am to some dude who lacks either of those aspects in his argument but thinks the outcomes will be generally positive because reasons.