rekrunner wrote:
Armstronglivs wrote:
It seems you don't understand what I wrote.
Spoken like one who has just returned a positive drug test.
If you read and understood what I wrote, what you quoted, what you can still read, I said for many, personal experience is not a factor in the decision making process, because many people, including athletes, are persuaded by "well Lance said it and he should know, so I believe him because I don't really know myself". The decision is based on perceptions, and not personal experience nor personal knowledge. Whether this factor is escalated or not, it is multiplied by another factor, 0.
You have no understanding of what you are trying to say, or even what you have previously said. As someone who is not an athlete and has no experience of doping or dealing with dopers, your claims - like the athletes you dismiss - are based entirely on "perceptions and not personal experience". The contradiction is very apparent but self awareness is not one of your traits. It has also somehow eluded you that athletes that dope have exactly the kind of experience you don't - experience that you say is necessary to knowledge. Furthermore, when you claim "personal knowledge", that claim to understanding is entirely vicarious, derived as it is from the views of others, who in researching the issue have no personal experience themselves of doping or even likely what it is to be a professional athlete. Your "knowledge" of doping is as a person whose only experience of sexuality is pornography.
What seals your idiocy is your effectively arguing that for thousands of athletes that dope it is largely the anecdotal experiences of athletes like Armstrong that lead to that decision, as though that is the only information available to them that they will rely on. Armstrong's experience simply stands for itself, as a story of the rise and fall of a sporting icon, and is persuasive of the effects of doping to the extent it enabled him to achieve 7 yellow jerseys - or similarly for Marion Jones, a slew of Olympic gold medals. But athletes have doped before them and continue to dope long after.
When you practice lying as assiduously as you do, it ultimately completely divorces you from reality. You have lost all capacity for discerning fact from fiction, especially when it comes from your own mouth. Unfortunately, you will continue to show there is no end to it.