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Nordic Open Ruling in Quarterfinals -- O'Laughlin vs. Mitrelis

Posted By: Albert Steg
Date: Tuesday, 29 March 2016, at 2:31 a.m.

In Response To: Nordic Open Ruling in Quarterfinals -- O'Laughlin vs. Mitrelis (Jason Lee)

Language doesn't work that way. There needs to be some common understanding of what words mean or else conversations just fall apart. We should be particularly careful in this community about using that word.

There are plenty of other words available here: He violated the rules. He committed an egregiously inappropriate offense. He should have known better and therefore one might argue he should be barred from playing in next year's tournament. All these expressions stay on the safe side of claiming that he "cheated" -- which really is as grave and irrevocable accusation as you can make about a games player.

If you water down the most potent language for moral disapproval, you wind up without anything to describe the really bad actors. We need cheating to mean cheating. Because cheaters should not be welcome at backgammon tournaments.

And I'm not sure what dictionary you read, but any good one will involve the element of intention. Pointing to "dictionary definitions" is generally not a terribly sophisticated approach to settling ethical/philosophical/semantic arguments anyhow.

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