Your moral upbringing in this particular was clearly exemplary, Gutcher, and much to be respected. But it does seem to have left you a bit doctrinaire as to its universal applicability, a bit intolerant of deviance from it ~~ and prone to reject any hint of precedents to this outrage [as you view it] which you refer to as if it was unique in the history of sport, and no such thing had ever been heard of before: so what if the Grace stories may be a bit apocryphal and folkloric as I said?; the Bradman 1946 one wasn't.

I wonder whether such intolerance and lack of empathy were the effect that those who imbued you {'programmed' as you call it} from childhood onwards with such excellent principles, would have been aiming for, or would have approved.

~M~