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RockRam
ZN, I understand that for you, business and contract ethics play no role in this debate..

I just apply it to management too.

Holdouts are old. Harrah and Youngblood held out in 1980. It's a routine part of business in the NFL. I was saying in 99 when Faulk was holding out that there's nothing unethical about a holdout. You clearly disagree, which is why we need discussion--it helps develop the awareness that there actually is more than one view on things like this and that there is not just one version of ethics in this situation.

I like a more balanced view that looks at the whole picture. In the current climate, my task is to present some of that, best I can, without being inflammatory.

Most people at contract time tend to be more pro-management. I think they naturalize that view, and can often act as if it's the only possible one. So for example you think I don't apply ethics. That's incorrect. To be more emphatic, that is quite simply COMPLETELY incorrect. I just see the ethics of the situation differently than you do, and I don't see your version of ethics in this situation as the only possible one.

I just try to always recall that there are two sides, and two sets of interests, governing negotiations. And there's more than one possible view of all that. Including the ethics of it.


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