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Unread 08-01-2004, 07:52
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Re: The Manuall will be cracked in...

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Originally Posted by dlavery
So why do I care at all about this? Because the quote above says that, on OUR playfield - the environment of the FIRST competition and the community of teams that define the FIRST culture - some may think that it is OK to bend or break the rules, as long as it is covered by the "I'm not trying to break the law, I was just curious" rubric. I am only speaking for myself, but I do not think that is acceptable behavior. I am not satisfied with the attitudes that society finds acceptable. I believe that the best way to change those attitudes is to change society. And one of the best ways to do that is to raise the standards of "acceptability" and then live by them. I would hope that within THIS community, we are trying to do that.
This is going to change the subject a bit but it's the first thing that I thought of after reading this. I should start off by saying that I completely agree with you. My main concern is that FIRST itself doesn't really seem to follow such guidelines. Except, in FIRST case, it's okay to break the rules because the teams spent time designing and building the component. There were major incidents of FIRST allowing teams to overrule FIRST's initial judgements simply by being stuburn occuring in 2002 and there was at least one incident I'm aware of last year.

Consider this a bit of a request to FIRST to hold the community to a high level of standards as far as following the rules of the competition go.

Matt