Why Cheat?

Ok, there really is no point to cheating during competative events. To be perfectly honest, from my point of view, cheating during a competition is a bad as saying there shouldn't be competative events. Competation is something us humans are breed for. To prove who's better at doing something. This proof not only validates the winners talent and training, but also encourages others to improve themselves. If there was no bar to measure up to, there would be no point to improve anything. Things would stagnate with that attitude. People would become apathetic, and life would lose some value. That's what's happening in the USA, and it's sad. People are afraid of feelings getting hurt, so instead of teaching a person that how good you are at certain events doesn't mean how good of a person you are, we teach them if you might not be good at something than no one should try. If you don't want a fat kid's feelings to get hurt cause their a slow runner, get the kid to lose some weight. Don't hold back everyone else from a healthy amount of competition just to spare the feelings of the other kids. Being fat is wrong, and if you can do something about it you should try, not make excuses. PUT DOWN THE FORK! Change your diet and excersise regularly, live a healthy lifestyle. Just cause you think something tastes good doesn't mean you should only eat that. Sacrifices need to be made to live a long and healthy life. When the aliens come, guess what porker, while the fit kids are toiling in the mines, you're being served as dinner!

Which gets me back to my original point about cheating, it makes no sense to do it. You may feel better about yourself for bringing the other kid down, but it's fake. You might as well be snorting coke than playing chess if you're gonna move the pieces while Bobby Fisher's out taking a crap. Come on, you'll never improve your own skills if you don't try, and why try when you cheat. Wouldn't a victory you earned be more bring you pride for years to come rather than a lie. Everytime you regale people of your besting your challenge, you would know it wasn't real. Imagine how much better it would feel if you knew you had won by virtue alone. You have to take pride in yourself, and even though it may be harder to win without cheating, take more time and dedication to get that good, wouldn't it be worth it if you knew your skills had actually reached that level. When you cheat, you make the other person feel bad. At best, you can feel good about that. When you win, you'll make him or her feel bad and feel good about yourself at the same time. It's like if you cheat, you win once, but if you win without cheating, you win twice, or more. It'll improve your confidance to know you're that good, and that way you can continually take on more challenging opponents. Cheating allows you to stagnate your skills, and if you don't improve and the others do eventually they will get ahead of you and eventually even cheating won't help you win. If you use a strategy guide to beat a game, why bother playing it? If you can't figure it out on your own, then you didn't learn anything by beating it. And if you didn't learn, you won't be able to make the right connections in the next game you play, and you'll need a guide, and so on and so forth for the games will continually get more complexe and you won't be learning what problem solving techniques others are because you have a crutch. So even cheating against a machine is pointless.

I realize that if you want to cheat, you will, I'm just hoping you'll consider to stop cheating yourself. So you won't be winning right now, down the road as you skills improve you'll realize that it was better to learn things and do things for yourself so that you could learn from your mistakes. Sherlock Holmes may have been a fictional character, but we could learn a lesson from him. In the book series the reason why he was able to solve the mysteries was because he was able to draw parallels to previous cases. By connecting other motives and crimes together he was able to solve what was before him. We are continually learning from out experiances. As long as you learn from your losses, in either figuring out what strategies don't work or what physical attributes need to be improved, you can turn past losses into future victories.