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Originally Posted by CASe333
I don't think you are doing a good enough job of seeing this from Hamonic's point of view. It may have had nothing to do with whether "he believes the risk is too high...". I think you completely miss the point that in his statement he states "Due to what my daughter has already has gone through" he will not be leaving his most important job being her dad. He would have to leave her for months to stay in the bubble.
I cannot fathom someone arguing it is selfish to stay home with their family during a pandemic vs going and playing a game. He is giving up everything he has worked for in his career right now to stay home and take care of a daughter who he thought he might lose. Honestly I am a bit flabbergasted you think that is selfish. Who is he lacking consideration for? Are you telling me he is supposed to put his teammates or the fans needs before his families?
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Yes he is putting his own self interest above that of his team. That is what he should be doing. I don’t see how you can call it anything but selfish though. You seem to be applying a negative connotation to the word in this instance. Most people behave selfishly all of the time.
He gets all of the benefit of the extension of the NHL season with none of the risk. If all players made the same decision it wouldn’t work. Therefore you have a tragedy of the commons type situation which encourages the selfish choice.
He isn’t giving up anything.