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Re: FIRST Philosophy 101

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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
When mentors get trophy-eyed there can be many pitfalls. Over the last several years I have personally seen:

<snip> list of examples of people behaving badly<snip>

yes, there is definately a down side when mentors forget why we are really doing this. Serious trouble!
Yes, I think we can all agree that bad people suck.

We can also all agree that the goals of FIRST are not well served by people acting like jerks.

But, because you can cite examples of people going too far does not, in my mind, argue that we can't and shouldn't try to compete as hard as we can (of course within the limits of fairness and without adopting a Winning is All attitude).

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