[blml] Categories of rule-breaker

[Grattan Endicott]

from Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "WILLIAM SCHODER" <schoderb at msn.com>
To: "BLML" <blml at rtflb.org>; 
"Grattan Endicott" <grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] Categories of rule-breaker


> 
> The hazy area not yet addressed to my satisfaction 
> is when we broadcast to thousands of people and 
> make visual records during a match.  Maybe golf 
> should take up our principle -- then Curtis Strange 
> would not have been penalized for kneeling on a 
> towel to keep his pants clean when it was called 
> in by a television viewer not even at the tournament 
> who was a "spectator". 
> 
+=+ Being a zealous venerer of the impractical my 
belief is that in an ideal world anyone who has gained
knowledge as a spectator should not make available 
that knowledge to the participants until it can no longer 
affect the result. I believe that, in a moral sense, the 
spectator remains an onlooker in that regard until the
dust has settled. 
       In "another place" it is argued that the detail of 
restrictions upon the actions of spectators should be 
matters of regulation. That in itself seems reasonable,
given the immense variety of circumstances in which 
spectators are tolerated, allowed, even welcomed.    
However, my desire would be to state an overriding 
principle that limits the extent of rectification when 
attention is first drawn to an irregularity by a spectator 
or 'has-been' spectator. I do contend that the game is 
for the players and not for the gallery.
                                        ~ Grattan ~  +=+