is that it can be made to sound right...
When Greig says thus :
I don't intend to play contrarian and am sorta approaching this as a statement up there for validation...
So, why would generating billions of dollars be less important than holding up the spirit of cricket ?
How can Greig be so sure of that priority ? Vantage Point, I reckon..
In a toss off between a billion dollars and something like a 'spirit of anything..' the former is naturally vilified.., maybe that is justified under some contexts, but the operative phrase is 'under some contexts'.
Think about it -
If we tilt the moral prism - As the governing body of a sport in a country that houses it's most loyal and passionate fans the BCCI's moral obligations should be foremost to check all the bullet points above including the etc. - which stems from generating billions of dollars.
While, the spirit of cricket sounds like the right thing to do, I have a problem when it's made to sound mutually exclusive from generating billions - on the contrary for the spirit to be taken more seriously just pay the players big money! Don't believe me, Ask Symonds and our resident ding-a-ling Bhajji..
Tony's statement makes apparent the fundamental futility of rhetoric that pits morals against the real world .. even from an argument perspective - in that morality should not be a part of the comparison as much as it should be a part of the entities that are being compared..
In short I think his 'more important' assertion is either dumb or spiteful - Take your pick!
When Greig says thus :
"We can huff and puff as much as we like and have all sorts of external
reports but this situation can only be resolved by India accepting that
the spirit of cricket is more important than generating billions of
dollars; it's more important than turning out multimillionaire players;
and it's more important than getting square with Australia and England
for their bully-boy tactics towards India over the years."
I don't intend to play contrarian and am sorta approaching this as a statement up there for validation...
So, why would generating billions of dollars be less important than holding up the spirit of cricket ?
How can Greig be so sure of that priority ? Vantage Point, I reckon..
In a toss off between a billion dollars and something like a 'spirit of anything..' the former is naturally vilified.., maybe that is justified under some contexts, but the operative phrase is 'under some contexts'.
Think about it -
- Billions of Dollars generated by the BCCI would preclude -
- Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs
- Millions of dollars of tax money
- Innovation and some sorta progress..
- More money back into the development of the game and it's practitioners etc. etc.
If we tilt the moral prism - As the governing body of a sport in a country that houses it's most loyal and passionate fans the BCCI's moral obligations should be foremost to check all the bullet points above including the etc. - which stems from generating billions of dollars.
While, the spirit of cricket sounds like the right thing to do, I have a problem when it's made to sound mutually exclusive from generating billions - on the contrary for the spirit to be taken more seriously just pay the players big money! Don't believe me, Ask Symonds and our resident ding-a-ling Bhajji..
Tony's statement makes apparent the fundamental futility of rhetoric that pits morals against the real world .. even from an argument perspective - in that morality should not be a part of the comparison as much as it should be a part of the entities that are being compared..
In short I think his 'more important' assertion is either dumb or spiteful - Take your pick!
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