re: moral equivalency? hunh vs flopping

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It's easy to define because pretending to have an illness or injury is not the same as suffering from an injury or illness. What's your next dodge, dance, and run?

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here, i will go slow. the word feign is indeed easy to define, you found it in the dictionary all on your own,kudos. the act of determining a feigned illness vs an unfeigned illness (are you still following me?) on the field (you know what the field is?) is not a straightforward prospect. who is to say when a player is feigning an illness (are you still with me)? In practice, will you as the (alleged) ref make a player who is down get up on go to the sideline? would there be repercussions for on official who made a truly injured player do so (should i be using smaller words, just tell me. i know you can access the dictionary so hopefully you are following)? No? Ok then. So in practice (and by in practice i mean in the real world, not when you do something over and over to get better at it), there is no mechanism to enforce a prohibition against flopping (if defined as feigning and injury or illness). So, is a rule that cant be enforced really a rule in practice (again, not like practicing your flute)? Since you are content to retreat into semantics here, lets just refer to another definition of flop, ie to fall to the ground. Yes, words can have more than one definition.

edit. since you are fond of quoting me, you will notice that in the very first post of this thread i define flopping as going down with a less than traumatic injury.