Gracious Professionalism

[DanL]

As for your analogy, one thing I've learned from being on Debate is that analogies always get ripped apart, and arguing them just wastes time. It all depends on how you percieve it. Lets just stay away from analagies - their meaning depends on your side of the debate (and since in a debate, you have two different sides, well, you get the point - they get nowhere). It gets more done to debate the central theme, so lets just stick at that.

Originally posted by Jim McGeehin
Replacing the word robots with goals completely changes the context of the message. The goals are not animate, nor are they controlled by any team or teams directly. They are manipulated by teams through various measures.

Does it really? Both are movable field elements. Both have to be moved to score points. Both are worth the same amount of points. You get penalized if you damage any of them. What it comes down to is that both are elements of the game. You said the goals are manipulated by teams. Why are they manipulated? To score points and earn you the victory. In the same way, robots are there to score points. Why should you be able to manipulate goals, but not robots - both of which are just game elements there to score points?