There is a difference between ‘hypocrisy’ and ‘changing your mind’ or ‘having regrets’. Typically,...

There is a difference between ‘hypocrisy’ and ‘changing your mind’ or ‘having regrets’. Typically, we allow that people can stop doing things when they begin to feel those things are harmful to them, and suggest in turn that perhaps others should not do those things, because they might also find them harmful. According to your logic, Don Cherry, anyone who ever held up a few liquor stores would be morally obligated to continue holding up liquor stores as long as he could, and furthermore to encourage others to hold up liquor stores as a means of survival, and if that person ever renounced liquor-store-robbery, they would be a turncoat and a hypocrite.

E at A Theory of Ice, speaking of Don Cherry's disgusting first Coach's Corner segment of 2011-12. This response was to Cherry's assertion that former fighters like Jim Thomson, Chris Nilan, and Georges Laraque were 'turncoats' for having second thoughts on fighting's role in the game.

While the 2011-12 season unfortunately brings yet another season of the Don on Hockey Night in Canada, it fortunately is bringing the most eloquent Habs blogger on the planet back on board. We've missed you, E.

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Closed mindedness is not a virtue

Not that the fighting causes harm evidence is bulletproof, but…

I find it baffling that re-evaluating your position on an issue in the light of new evidence or new experiences is a bad thing. I don’t understand demonizing someone for saying they believe they were wrong in the past (or “worse”, that they simply don’t know).

Where would we be if everyone put their head in the sand when a new way of thinking came along? How about we all go live in a geocentric universe, attempting to re-balance the humours whenever someone becomes ill. And it’s not like I’m even taking a look at a moral issue there.

Baffling.

by Roke on Oct 7, 2011 4:42 PM EDT reply actions

Don Cherry is about as textbook of a case of a man that thinks he won the “magical belief lottery,” i.e. I am the one person who is always right, as one can find. He sees his ruler as straight and judges the straightness of other rulers by the amount they conform to his own and most importantly, never tests his measure against the straightness of reality. He does not change because he sees no reason for it.

Everyone is like this but Chery is easily in the upper percentiles of this kind of behavior.

by Stephan Cooper on Oct 7, 2011 6:19 PM EDT up reply actions

Cherry is like your crazy old uncle who is not getting wiser with age but has stopped personal growth because of ego and his stubborn refusal to grow with the times or the game. It is just crazy ranting IMO and he threw Nilan under the bus, somebody he always championed. How is that loyalty from a guy who claims to be loyal?

by Chris Boyle on Oct 7, 2011 5:45 PM EDT reply actions