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Originally Posted by yournamehere
How sick does a society have to be to make spoiled, rich athletes and entertainers their role models, anyway?
What's his cheating have to do with his golfing ability? Absolutely nothing.
As dlish pointed out, as long as the rich get richer, life goes on. They don't care what we think, unless it adversely affects their bottom line. And it won't.
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(note: this is not a response to you, per se, but I really liked the whole of your post, so I thought it beared rementioning)
The majority of people see what Tiger did as wrong, but there's no law in place currently to make him "pay" for what we did, and how a certain sect of the population now views Woods with burning hate; it doesn't matter what you think, or I think (which is very little of this subject) or even what the world does (short of actually going extreme and doing Tiger physical harm).
Yes, the bottom line still remains at this: Tiger Woods is still considered to be the world's greatest athlete by some, and the face and the absolute, undisputed ambassador of his chosen sport (golf) at this current time. As long as he still has a desire to play, and play well, in time, he will reclaim some, not all, of his tarnished image. The PGA certainly wants him back, as does Nike and a few of his fan supporters, and so long as he is there to compete, he will land on his feet. All other things, he brushes it aside as if he doesn't care, and neither do I. His family situation is his business, just the same as mine is my own.
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
I think this is a better way of explaining this as spoken by Mr. Charles Barkley.
"I am not a role model." - Charles Barkley
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and as a follow-up to take Barkley (and kinda coincidental he is a personal friend of Tiger's) at his word:
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I'm still a human being, and I'm gonna do some things that are right, and some things that are wrong. But the main reason people make athletes role models is because they play a sport well, and that's not good enough."