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<blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 4992797" data-attributes="member: 307">I have to question qhether using your strength to win a competition is actually cheating? We don't accuse people who are large in size with &quot;cheating&quot; because they excel at being linemen in football, or people who are tall with cheating when they excel in basketball. Why is it that using &quot;superpowers&quot; (which are effectively a literary construct) is cheating when done in competition? I could never compete with Michael Phelps in a swimming contest, even if he stopped working out for a decade, is it cheating for him to win if he races against me?Learning to patronize them by letting them win? Parents often try to patronize their children when they are very small by letting them win at games. Is Dash a parent level figure to those poor benighted souls who aren't good enough to have &quot;superpowers&quot; who should be letting others win races? This seems like a very dangerous ideology to be espousing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Storm Raven, post: 4992797, member: 307"] I have to question qhether using your strength to win a competition is actually cheating? We don't accuse people who are large in size with "cheating" because they excel at being linemen in football, or people who are tall with cheating when they excel in basketball. Why is it that using "superpowers" (which are effectively a literary construct) is cheating when done in competition? I could never compete with Michael Phelps in a swimming contest, even if he stopped working out for a decade, is it cheating for him to win if he races against me? Learning to patronize them by letting them win? Parents often try to patronize their children when they are very small by letting them win at games. Is Dash a parent level figure to those poor benighted souls who aren't good enough to have "superpowers" who should be letting others win races? This seems like a very dangerous ideology to be espousing. [/QUOTE]

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