Know Your Enemy said:
agnerd said:
Guess I'm the only one that doesn't think he should get it back. He broke the rules, he knew he broke the rules, he decided it was worth the risk of getting caught, he got caught, and then thinks the consequences shouldn't apply to him.
I didn't meet the lofty GPA requirements of one of my college scholarships. I guess I need to start a PR campaign on how I DESERVE to have that scholarship money given to me even though I didn't hold up my end of the bargain.
So you think Johnny's Heisman should be taken away too?
And your comparison is absolute dog **** by the way.
If Johnny had been caught, yes his trophy should've been taken away, too. He decided that the money was more important to him than the chance he could lose the trophy. I will argue all day that he EARNED the right to make the decision on whether the risk was acceptable to him. Same thing with Bush.
Accordingly, I knew that I had to keep a 3.75 to keep my scholarship. I knew that that would be difficult in engineering. I decided that an engineering degree was worth more to me than $7k of scholarship money. After a semester, I decided that being involved in campus life was more important than the $6k remaining on my scholarship. I chose to let me grades fall, and I had to deal with the consequences of those actions. I don't deserve the rest of that scholarship and nobody should feel sorry for me and the decisions I consciously made to lose it.
Both decisions involve evaluating the consequences of the actions taken. I guess I didn't try to cheat to keep my reward even though other people were. If I had cheated and gotten caught, again, I believe I deserve to lose my scholarship based on the rules I agreed to. But other than that, the situations seem very similar to me.