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  1. neville cardus

    Another Mankading

    Again, not what I said. Not remotely. I described a certain brand of logic -- that which takes everything legal also to be moral -- as having a very close resemblance to a line of thinking I've heard from sociopaths; also, while we're at it, from loan sharks and lobbyists. That's just a factual...
  2. neville cardus

    Another Mankading

    Okay. Furnish me a few examples, other than the one below, of what you would consider unsporting conduct. Why? That doesn't seem to meet your criteria. There's no rule against leaving your crease early. There is, however, a rule against hitting the ball in the air and getting caught, or...
  3. neville cardus

    Another Mankading

    You, too. Wander on down to Wikipedia and learn what an "analogy" is. It's painful to have to argue with people who haven't the barest grasp on how logical arguments are constructed.
  4. neville cardus

    Another Mankading

    For the umpteenth time, we're not debating the legal validity of the dismissal. What we're debating is whether or not it was unsportsmanlike to effect it. And no (to pre-empt an argument you've mounted more than once), it is not sportsmanlike just because it falls within the rules. It's...
  5. neville cardus

    Another Mankading

    Look, darling. It's an analogy, not an equation. Analogies are thought experiments; equations are claims of parity. Either you don't know that, in which case I'm not going to waste any further time arguing with you, or you do, in which case you're being wilfully stupid. Either way, this...
  6. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Exciting!
  7. neville cardus

    Another Mankading

    Yeah. Whoever did that is an utter tool.
  8. neville cardus

    Another Mankading

    But I wasn't referring to the law. I was referring to the moral case against murder. There is one, you know.
  9. neville cardus

    Another Mankading

    And I know that, if I leave my front door unlocked, I run the risk of being murdered in my bed. That I've been negligent, however, does not absolve my murderer.
  10. neville cardus

    Another Mankading

    I was only partially joking, so I'm prepared to stand by it. What does it misrepresent? If, as I've submitted, "the spirit of cricket" is just sportsmanship by another name, the description of it as "drivel" would seem entirely to warrant the interpretation I've given. No?
  11. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Or wherever Swanton's literary remains are now. This is definitely worth pursuing.
  12. neville cardus

    Another Mankading

    Translation: "Sportsmanship is for sissies. Decency is dead. Long live Trevor Chappell."
  13. neville cardus

    Another Mankading

    Nope. That was Paul's first delivery with Ngarava at the non-striker's end.
  14. neville cardus

    Another Mankading

    See the OP. I think I gave a fair and detailed account there.
  15. neville cardus

    Another Mankading

    It doesn't boil down to that. Conceivably there is an argument for Mankading which doesn't smack of sociopathy; at any rate, I'm open to the possibility. But that argument isn't the one which asserts that everything is kosher so long as it's within the law. That isn't how decent people think. I...
  16. neville cardus

    Another Mankading

    Even sadder, he made that decision before he had any reason to suppose it would come off: When Paul elected to remove the bails, Ngarava was still in his crease; he only vacated it -- and then by millimetres -- at the moment the ball would have been leaving the hand.
  17. neville cardus

    Another Mankading

    Hear, hear.
  18. neville cardus

    Another Mankading

    The "spirit of cricket" means nothing more or less than "sportsmanship." Sportsmanship is what happens when you don't accept an advantage you would be entitled to accept, according to the letter of the law, because to do so would feel wrong, and because you recognise that there are more...
  19. neville cardus

    Another Mankading

    Good heavens. You people...
  20. neville cardus

    Another Mankading

    It's about standards. What are we prepared to tolerate? I'm against underhandedness, even when the rules permit it. Others have more literal minds...

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