Quote: On Shutting Down Success

[concerning a football player in grade school who was told he was making 'too many touchdowns' and told to stop:]

I noticed some of you don’t understand this situation. Let me put it into a context you might understand more easily.

Let’s say Company A makes widgets. Company B makes a widget that is very similar to Company A’s widget. Company A sells 90% of the widgets in America because they are better quality. The federal government steps in and says, “It isn’t fair that Company A is dominating the widget market. We will devise regulations that will restrict Company A and remove some of their advantage over Company B.”

Or how about two salespeople at the same company. Salesperson A is a go-getter and is far outselling everyone. Do you think the company should (or would) tell that salesperson to hold back because his/her success is demoralizing the other salespeople? Preposterous!!

Liberalism is a mental disease. Competition is not bad. It is good – for all involved, not just the leaders.

Sheesh! I can’t believe we’re even having this discussion.

–Steve Lockridge

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I grew up in Georgia in the ’70s and remember when Herschel Walker ran roughshod over any opponent that faced him. He racked up over 3,000 yards rushing in his senior year alone on the way to a state championship. No one, to my recollection, ever talked about how awful it was that Herschel kicked so much ass. No, the talk was about what could be done (wink, nod) to get him to commit to play for [insert favorite NCAA Division I team here]. My, how times have changed.

The Madre Hill Rule is, in effect, a 100% marginal tax rate on touchdowns…

And why? All in the name of “fairness”, that’s why. Too much trouble to ask other teams to rise to the challenge and design a defense to stop him, I guess. Nope, it’s just not fair that he’s so good, so we have to erect roadblocks in his path.

And this prepares the other kids for life in the real world, where there’s always someone bigger, faster, stronger, smarter or better in some way how again? Answer: it doesn’t but the primary goal of our education system is keeping teachers and administrators employed so shut up.

–Ace of Spades