Re: Sieberts win NA Swiss

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
(John Blubaugh) wrote:

> That is certainly the case, Tim. I really think you need to send the
> Seiberts a letter or better yet tell them in person. You, sir, need a 
> real lesson in manners. Calling someone unethical or inferring that they 
> are when this is all that happened is beyond being rude. People have 
> been challenged to duels and killed for far less.

Deliberately physically assaulting another player at a bridge tournament 
is illegal, immoral and unethical.  No question about it.  Your petty 
insults on this newsgroup are not unethical.  Were you to use similar 
insults in a tournament setting they would be.  However, it is faintly 
possible that you know the laws of bridge and would be wise enough to 
refrain from such insults while bound by them.  It is also possible that 
you are incapable of understanding the laws and think that 
insulting/assaulting people is permitted.  Again your insults would not be 
unethical since you would not know you were deliberately breaking the 
laws.  From what you have said I consider it entirely possible that the 
Sieberts were unaware that the laws applied when the incident occurred and 
thus they did not act unethically.

As to your distinction between "conduct" and "ethics", conduct is about 
*doing* right/wrong, ethics is about *knowing* whether what you are doing 
is right/wrong.  Simple enough for you? 

Tim West-Meads (TimWM online)