Slowman wrote:
"That could be very easily avoided by not making any comparison at all." yes, you're right. but is that what you want, going forward? analogies and examples serve us well in the course of conversation. if you're saying that we just ought to strike the use of analogy, metaphor, parallel, simile, from discourse i think that's giving into the baser element. can you and i not use figures of speech at all, because the reader will force an equivalency irrespective of our clear intention to the contrary?
if you have a problem with anything i write, i'm happy to hear what that problem is. i just am not going to write as if i'm running for political office and must closely parse every word to inoculate and scrub it for any possible attack.
might i digress to the actual theme of thread? i think a lot of people - perhaps jack as well, certainly members of the board of directors - are reading this. i suspect they're all interested in the sober opinions people have on the future of jack weiss as well as what the federation's posture toward felony convictions should be going forward. as an aside, in this case, i think it's possible (i'll have to check) that there is no current felony conviction. a person in this same parallel situation in the future could, reasonably, claim that an expunged conviction is no conviction, legally speaking, making him or her eligible for board service. when we do establish our code of conduct it would be wise to anticipate this.
A simple Morality Clause in the by-laws is all that would be necessary with a 2/3 majority of the board voting on it to remove a member who has done something as beating his wife or other actions that would cause USA Triathlon Partners http://www.usatriathlon.org/...urrent-partners.aspx to consider dropping their partnership of an organization who had morally corrupt individuals or individuals who have done morally corrupt things running the organization they are partners with.
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