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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rob Kuntz" data-source="post: 8398015" data-attributes="member: 7015759">Logical fallacy #1:  Written rules are superior to verbalization of same.Chicken or Egg?Upon the advent of basketball (let us assume) that a single person one day threw a ball through a hanging hoop, intentionally or otherwise.  An idea occurred!  That's a point!  Ball through hoop =1 Point.  That is a rule, of course.  Now to impress those with his new discovery he immediately moved to the library to get pencil and paper to write than rule down!  Actually, no.  He instead gathered some of his fellow classmates and friends and informed them of his new discovery and how it worked (the RULE) and they were off and running (literally).  Now as the game evolved and more rules were added it became necessary to write these down to memorize and disseminate, as this new fad was strong and in demand and was now becoming a paid endeavor even!  But for the most part, people in alleyways and school yards really didn't read a book to play the game, they watched it to learn, and/or were verbally instructed by instructors no less!  or by those conversant enough with the rules--who could be biased in your world, for they indeed did not carry let alone produce for such neophytes an "ABC's of Basketball" pamphlet from their person for such instruction.  Along the way referees were added for those school and college matches who knew all about the rules (as memorized from books) but that they, too, did not carry upon their persons during play.  Such referees bias must remain suspect according to your view, for they too are just humans lacking true balance and moral fortitude and could even be conked on the head during an errant play, thus possibly (and maybe forever!) dislocating those rules that they had so assiduously memorized!Everyone is imperfect and/or suspect in your world of situational bias.  Indeed the burden of proof to that end is upon you, not I or anyone of the millions, past present and future, like me.I now disembark from this voyage of the absurd. --finito--</blockquote>

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