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<blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 4993282" data-attributes="member: 307">Umm, running fast enough to win isn't being deceptive. Pretending you are slower than you are to come in second is.But Dash isn't pretending to be an amateur when he is not. He is an amateur. He's just a really good one. Does Usain Bolt have to submit a &quot;my best speed&quot; dossier before he competes? The difference here is one of degree, not one of kind.Where would you draw the line and have it be anything other than entirely arbitrary? Why is being really fast now a disqualification for running races?I think the problem is this: when the superhero comic was being developed, comic book writers didn't want to think about the implications of having super fast, super strong and other wise super powered people in society. They just wanted to write stories about beating up bad guys. So they glossed over the fact that these guys would be unbeatable at sports, and then came up with silly explanations why they would not all be famous professional athletes in normal life, making piles of money. (Although I do remember a story in which Superman, as Clark Kent, played high school football and was a star player). And this idea has become so ingrained in our culutre that, for no real logical or coherent reason, someone with superior prowess in this manner is somehow behaving badly when, instead of becoming an extralegal vigilante and breaking a dozen laws by beating people up on the street, they instead choose to go into the sporting arena and compete completely within the rules and win. Its a stupid meme that just seems stupider the more you look at it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Storm Raven, post: 4993282, member: 307"] Umm, running fast enough to win isn't being deceptive. Pretending you are slower than you are to come in second is. But Dash isn't pretending to be an amateur when he is not. He is an amateur. He's just a really good one. Does Usain Bolt have to submit a "my best speed" dossier before he competes? The difference here is one of degree, not one of kind. Where would you draw the line and have it be anything other than entirely arbitrary? Why is being really fast now a disqualification for running races? I think the problem is this: when the superhero comic was being developed, comic book writers didn't want to think about the implications of having super fast, super strong and other wise super powered people in society. They just wanted to write stories about beating up bad guys. So they glossed over the fact that these guys would be unbeatable at sports, and then came up with silly explanations why they would not all be famous professional athletes in normal life, making piles of money. (Although I do remember a story in which Superman, as Clark Kent, played high school football and was a star player). And this idea has become so ingrained in our culutre that, for no real logical or coherent reason, someone with superior prowess in this manner is somehow behaving badly when, instead of becoming an extralegal vigilante and breaking a dozen laws by beating people up on the street, they instead choose to go into the sporting arena and compete completely within the rules and win. Its a stupid meme that just seems stupider the more you look at it. [/QUOTE]

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