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   omQ R said, 5 months ago

   I’m curious whether the benefits of the doubt will be returned. Probably with interest after a few lawsuits.
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   Kylie2112 said, 5 months ago

   He should have just done what Marion Jones did: fess up and be done with it. He and Pete Rose both gave their confession and apology far too late for it to be effective.
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   Respectful Troll said, 5 months ago

   I was using the Livestrong Foundation’s website yesterday to get information on exercises for the lower back. They also have good recipes to help with various health problems.
   I was one of Mr. Armstrong’s believers until the evidence grew too great. I even apologized for my misguided support in these forums. However, like the baseball players who used steroids, he deserves to be punished, but the Livestrong Foundation is not Armstrong. He created it, it’s his child, but this child now stands on its own accomplishments and the sins of the father should not be placed on the shoulders of the millions who have benefited from the good Livestrong has done.
   Respectfully,
   C.
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   Clark Kent said, 5 months ago

   I dont care. A bunch of fat ugly bitter old men with tiny shrivelled genitals took away his medals. Granted, he’s a jerk who cheated on his wife. But he knew what he was doing to his body if he actually did take those chemicals. It’s also possible that he’s innocent but was made an “offer he couldn’t refuse” such as staying out of prison. The system is totally corrupt.
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   Respectful Troll said, 5 months ago

   @Clark Kent

   Oh Clark…
   Meat eaters are disgusting, all guns should be banned, but a world class athlete who knowingly used banned substances. took unfair advantage over honest racers, and committed fraud should be given a pass? Even though he’s a role model to millions, including children? Notice, I didn’t mention his infidelity.
   I think we found your ‘soft spot’.
   Some of my first posts were in avid defense of Mr. Armstrong because he overcame cancer with grace and used his fame to create the amazing Livestrong Foundation. The fact he was famous as a racer was interesting only as I love watching the scenes of Europe and like rooting for the underdogs; the guys in front who set the pace, but almost always fade in the last few minutes.
   He LIED to the bitter old men, he cheated the sport that made their shriveled parts feel better, and Mr. Armstrong got caught. Too many sports have the attitude of cheat if it makes the sport look good, but don’t get caught. I hadn’t heard there was ever a threat to put Mr. A in jail, but I did hear he wanted them to lift the band on him competing in future sports.
   I usually agree with your sentiments Mr. Kent, but I suggest you’re mad at the wrong people.
   Respectfully,
   C.
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   MortyForTyrant said, 5 months ago

   Why he would do this is beyond me. “A criminal always returns to the scene of the crime” comes to mind. There seems to be a secret desire to confess ones crimes. How is it that evolution didn’t wipe out this unhealthy trait? Fascinating…
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   mickey1339 said, 5 months ago

   @MortyForTyrant

   “How is it that evolution didn’t wipe out this unhealthy trait?”
   *
   Politicians have developed lying into an art form. Return to the scene of the crime, it is intrinsically wrapped up in the arrogance of power, if that makes sense…
   I agree with “C” wholeheartedly, his foundation has done immeasurable good and should not be held accountable or in any way complicit for his “other” actions.
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   Radish said, 5 months ago

   Such a sincere liar. People in sports, business and politics will do anything to win at the expense of everyone else. They are role models for psychopaths.
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   DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

   @MortyForTyrant

   It’s not unhealthy. Quite the opposite. We evolved as socially moral creatures that value reciprocity, fair play, and retribution. The confessions of a cheater re-established those social connections so necessary on the African Savanna.
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    MortyForTyrant said, 5 months ago

    @DrCanuck

    Uhhhh… That’s deep! “Social Evolution”. Hadn’t thought of it, my thinking was more along classic Darwin, but I guess you could be right. Thanks!
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    DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

    @MortyForTyrant

    ^ Oops, we’re not communicating here. I’m only talking Darwin here myself. But it’s not simply physical features that are selected; it’s the USE of those features, that is, behaviour. It’s not HAVING thumbs that gets selected; it’s GRASPING stuff with those thumbs that is.

    
    So Behaviour itself can be see as selected. And social behaviour, mutual and reciprocal interactive behaviour has a great deal of evolutionary adaptive significance. Morality included.
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    jonesb said, 5 months ago

    “Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye. Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”
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    DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

    @jonesb

    ^ You tell ’em, Jonesy.
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