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Originally Posted by ForeverFlameFan
You should be ashamed for posting that.
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Not even a little bit. Posters are blatantly contorting themselves to emotionally rationalize this person's decision. I think emotional reasoning is a terrible attribute to have and does a disservice to society at large. And so, I'll continue to stick with the facts and basic logic.
Lets revisit...
Many posters have contended the player made the decision "for the safety of his kids". That's not a logical position for a poster to take given that covid poses a negligible risk to children. If you then suggest that a negligible chance of dying from COVID is still more than 0% chance and even a 0.0001% chance of dying is too high...well that's really only a defensible position if you and he advocate protecting children against other extremely low risk activities like flying on an airplane, riding in a car, or going to amusement parks. Which clearly no one does, because that would be a very stupid way to live your life. We all accept some risks in life. And to the posters saying, "yeah, well covid might not kill you, but it still can you leave you with long-term adverse effects." That's true, but there's lots of war amps from vehicle accidents. So it's really a weak argument, because it goes back to negligible risks.
Next, posters say - "well he didn't know the facts, but he made the decision with his kid's best interest in mind, which is just as laudable." This again makes no sense given the facts. The facts are that there were 24 teams each with 20 skaters and to my knowledge no other healthy skaters made that decision. Every player would been given the opportunity to consult with medical professionals, their agent, their teammates, their team and their union, each of which would have spoon-fed the players the facts and risks about COVID. It also makes no sense given the playoffs started a good two months after Alberta had moved into Phase 2 and we had plenty of data. In fact, I cited the data on the day he made his decision. If we didn't know the facts, would Alberta have been reopened? It wouldn't have. Would 99% of other NHL players made the rational decision to play hockey if we didn't have sufficient facts? They would not have.
So what are we really left with? How do you possibly defend his decision within the bounds of rationality? You can't. You just can't. But if you have to hold in your heart that Hamonic is a great guy, who made a truly respectable decision by sitting out the playoff bubble, then you do you.