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Just try to imagine the most vulgar, dirty, corrupt and cynical reason why it might be that way. You'll probably be right.
by AndrewOMartin 5y ago
Just try to imagine the most vulgar, dirty, corrupt and cynical reason why it might be that way. You'll probably be right.
- jeffrallen 5y agoA mafioso kidnapped the daughter of a manufacturer to force him to blackmail a national football chairman to bribe a FIFA official, because the mafioso owes a favor to an east Asian gang, who will benefit from increased demand for their slave labour in Burmese factories? Nah, couldn't be. Not dirty enough for FIFA.
- DaiPlusPlus 5y ago> Nah, couldn't be. Not dirty enough for FIFA. In utilitarian net terms the (BAFTA award winning) scenario you posit is far, far, far, better than the current situation where an estimated 6500+ exploited migrant workers have died building out the stadiums and infrastructure.
- KarlKemp 5y agoThe site guidelines recommend an assumption of good faith. That’s something that may just be advised more broadly these days, and you are failing it quite spectacularly.
- joe_fishfish 5y agoGiven the context here (a World Cup awarded to _Qatar_ of all places) it's arguably more of a good faith assumption that FIFA is indeed corrupt, because the alternative assumption is that its members are mind-blowingly incompetent, to the point where you'd be assuming they required assisted living programmes and round-the-clock care.
- phone8675309 5y agoThe history of FIFA and the actions they have taken means they have lost the right to the presumption of good faith, regardless of what the site guidelines recommend.
- baud147258 5y agoFrom my readings of the rules, the assumption of good faith was to be applied to the comments, not the content of linked pages.