I like insight about my position. I think losing that badly would be very insightful. To me it would be very insulting to have someone much better than me nurf their own performance, as to let me have an effectively false score.
I don't think most of the morals theoretically being applied here really make sense when it comes to sports, or games in general. I mean, the points in a game don't actually have any value. Where does compassion enter into this? If, say, the only way people made money was based on how much they scored in sports, then I'd understand the need for compassion. But as it is, points are just a mechanism of the game, and the game is just for entertainment.
And you know, the point is to win. Because of this, the sense of fun often comes from the competition, and the sense of satisfaction is only possible if you earned your success. If I know someone isn't trying their best against me, I lose all interest in playing. There'd be nothing generous about someone letting me score points then, because the only purpose of the game is entertainment, and now it wouldn't be entertaining at all. The only value the points have, is essentially removed if I know their simply being given to me.
I don't know, perhaps other people have a completely different idea of what games are for that I'm not aware of. This situation to me looks like a misunderstanding of what competetive games are all about.
) That doesn't work very well.
