[sumo] asashoryu and soccer

[John Racine]

I think a lot of these posts have gone way off the issue here.  I think the
injury has precious little to do with this.  UNICEF?  The kyokai at risk of
appearing anti-foreigner?  I think these have nothing to do with it.

Somewhere I read or heard a good analogy for this situation.  If it was
here, my apologies for repeating the point below.  I'll paraphrase:

Let's pretend that I'm an employer who has a high-profile employee working
for me.  He calls in sick.  Later I see him (EVERYBODY sees him!) having a
good time with a date at a restaurant.  Of course, I'm going to be pissed
off and want to throw the book at him.  Especially considering that he has
many examples of disrespectful behaviour in the past.

Now you can plug in the Kyokai as 'employer', Asa as the 'employee', and
UNICEF (or Mongolian children) as the 'date'.  It really doesn't matter how
sick (injured) he is.  He's in trouble.  And I couldn't care less who he
dates (plays soccer with).  He's still in trouble.

Now if this particular employee happens to be of a small minority group, do
you really think I'm being discriminative by punishing him?  How much would
I care about those that actually believed I was discriminating against him?
I know what he did.  I'd punish him.

John Racine