Do you think Michael Phelps should have been suspended by the USA swimming team?
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M$But the other side of the fence is that (as much as it shouldn't be), pot is illegal. Phelps knows that he's the Miss. America of swimming and people look to him.
We need some sort of moral compass and at the very least the law should provide the baseline for this. Like it or not.
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I agree with you. What do you think about marijuana as a substance? Do you think it's any worse than alcohol.
I feel ya.
But he's in the spotlight. He's the figurehead of the US swimming team.
He made an individual choice (and that's cool with me), but for the US swimming team to suspend him sorta makes sense.
We agree to disagree thanks for the conversation I love this site kinda new to it but its great to here other peoples thoughts
Yup, I agree with you Jabba.
While I do agree that the law should handle this i don't think that one person should be accountable for everybodys moral compass. I believe that all people need to find a compass within and not let it be quantified my an individual on tv.
Oh no. I think that Kellogs, etc pulling his sponsorships is justified and the suspension from the swim team is the least of his worries really. The negative PR being generated is astonishing and all-in, completely unjustified.
But I do agree that "we should have an evolved sensibility and realize that some laws are stupid and need to be eradicated. That is how a society makes progress". The problem is we don't and we need ways to positively enforce a baseline of behavior. This is the underlying concept of the law.
Nope. I don't.
So you're changing your stance then?
I have to disagree wholeheartedly. Instead, we should have an evolved sensibility and realize that some laws are stupid and need to be eradicated. That is how a society makes progress Rob, not by continuing to think inside of a box.
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Let's focus on his ability to swim faster than anyone else and let that be the main factor is determining he status on the team.
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Well, he needs to stop getting in trouble for drugs to start with. To be honest, his DUI conviction bothers me more then smoking marijuana. I was working on an article and I came across the story of Jacqueline Saburido. In 1999, she and two friends were hit by head-on by a 20-year-old drunk driver in Texas. Her two friends died on impact but Jacqueline was pinned in the front seat and burned. She woke up in a Galveston hospital blind and hallucinating. Today, she has no ears, nose, hair, stubs for hands, and limited vision.
The guy that hit her? In June 2001, Reginald Stephey was convicted on two counts of intoxicated manslaughter. He was sentenced to two concurrent seven-year prison sentences inside Huntsville Unit and fined $20,000. An appeal was refused in 2005, he was released on June 24, 2008 after serving his full seven year.
He destroyed three lives and all he got was 7 lousy years.
I don't think that people should get off lightly for DUI when the consequences can be so tragic.
I've gone off on a rant now...
How would he best "handle" this mistake?
Do the highschool lecture route to tell kids to stay away from drugs?
If they want to drug test him and they find there is an illegal substance in his body then they would have full grounds to suspend him. I have not read the swimmers manual but I am pretty confident in saying that there is no suspension clause for an imbarrassing picture.
The more concerning offense was his DUI. There should have been ramifications for that one.
Being alarmed by a picture but not by an actual illegal infraction is totally backward.
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Agreed. Not understanding that a camera is always around could continue to be a problem. The Swim organization has to keep up appearances.
That said, it's just a little weed, and he's still a kid.
Definitely, well said.
Very well put!