questions concerning christmas tree

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by bill dedman

Alan,

All the complaining in the world about the problems you mentioned has nothing to do with this issue.

If you think it's not important, then, ignore it. It's not worth your time.

I think it's a mole hill, but one that people have been tripping over for 36 years, and it's time to level it out, and level the playing field, in the process.

Doing so, won't affect any of the many other problems you mentioned in the slightest... one way, or another.

In all your verbiage, you still have not come up with one single reason NOT to fix it... none. Even YOU can't logically defend keeping this lopsided rule in effect.

That is very telling.

Glendora couldn't care less, I am sure; if they cared, it would have been fixed long ago.

I'm not holding my breath...

Thanks for your comments.

Bill, you are operating on an invalid assumption.

You assume that the change you desire will level the playing field. But you don't know that to be true. You only know that it would appear to have the same effect on everyone. That may not be true.

Rules are not necessarily about making everything the same for everyone. They are often about achieving or trying to achieve balance. In handicap drag racing you can NEVER make everything the same for every racer. It is impossible. You cannot give both racers in a handicap race a clean tree. Nor can you give both racers the same waiting time for the last yellow to come on.

You see what you assume is a glaring inequity that you feel you have the solution for. Others see that what you think is simple and obvious is actually neither simple nor obvious. You assume that a balance does not exist, but you do not really know that for sure, and yet you still seek to change something, without having the knowledge to be certain you will not actually upset an existing balance. Beware the law of unintended consequences.

You THINK you will level the playing field, but do you have statistical data to prove it? Do you have definitive proof that an actual imbalance exists? Or do you simply see what you think is an inexcusable inequity?