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Originally posted by Gadget470
FIRST is amazing and it's a shame that teams are willing to weasel around to get the most materialistic values involved (i.e. Points) and are missing the greater good (i.e. Better lives).
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I disagree that it's a shame.
I think it's an opportunity for teams to discover consequences and for teams to be exposed to gracious professionalism, despite their being perceived as "bad".
I think by this process they are discovering the greater good, and teams who do have an idea of GP are learning to express what that is even better.
I think it's an opportunity for teams to learn what they do and don't want to do, to consider ethics, to consider consequences, to learn to agree to disagree, to learn to make personal decisions and not be swayed by outside forces exclaiming winning is most important, or outside forces exclaiming to be the only right answer.