The topic of this thread reminds me of hearing about some schools not keeping score in sporting events,
because we don’t want kids to feel bad for losing. We are starting to see high schools that do not have a class ranking upon graduation because that may “hurt” those kids that are not ranked very high. And then there is the don’t discipline your children crowd, because you might shatter their creative spirit. Why is it that some feel the need to put kids in a box to “protect” their self esteem?
The Liberal socialists are destroying this country, and this is just another part of their grand scheme, of making everyone equal.
In sporting events where they don't keep score. No points, no goals, no baskets; just keep doing what you're doing, even if you're not doing it very well, and you'll feel good when it's over, even if you don't accomplish anything.
People opposed to having their children lose an event would have you believe that by not keeping score these young athletes will feel better about themselves. By playing in games that have no meaning, young competitors will not feel good about what they're doing because there's nothing to feel good about when it comes to apathy.
And that's what it's starting to come to.
Why try harder if you know you can't lose? Why not just do the bare minimum and still come out feeling like a winner, even if you didn't do anything to deserve that feeling? Plain and simple, there has to be some incentive somewhere to do better the next time.
Sports isn’t about who's a better athlete, or who's a better person. It's about individual moments, and who is the best at those moments. The best two baseball players on the planet could be pitted against one another, one trying to get a hit and the other trying to, get the other out, and eventually someone's going to have to win that battle.
A hit is going to be the result, or it isn't. Either way, the player who wins will feel good about winning, and whoever comes up on the short end of that moment will also be bettered by the competition. In the next moment's battle, he's going to remember what kind of a bitter taste losing left in his mouth, he's going to try harder to win, and his eventual success will feel better because he knows how it feels to lose. He'll have earned something.
That's one of the great things about sports, sometimes they're more than just sports, and can provide invaluable opportunities at life lessons.
The saying doesn't go, "If at first you don't succeed, it doesn't matter because you can still feel good about yourself because no one is keeping score."
Instead, you fail, you get up and dust yourself off, and you try again until you get it right. In the end, you end up a more complete person than you were when you started.
Sports with no winners and losers are just another doorway to a lifetime of disappointment and failure. When these kids get out of school, in the real world, where the line between the successful and the unsuccessful is very clear, and score will be being kept.
Losing builds a certain part of the character that winning can not build.
