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RE: An Open Letter to @uyobong and @steemchurch Members
Question: About the poll. Isn't a delegation to the winner essentially a gift award? There is no contractual obligation to deliver the reward, right?
With delegation it isn't really the same as handing somebody $10,000 cash in a suitcase. It's more like letting them borrow the car. If they take bad care of the car before the vacation is over, you can take the keys away early.
The only thing is it looks a bit low when somebody ducks out of the promised contest reward they offered. Wouldn't people understand if it was revealed the reward recipient earned it unjustly, or used it for purposes the delegator does not want to be maligned with?
@creativetruth,
Ironically, there is a great deal of Honor involved.
Yes, you are right ... there is nothing, pragmatically, stopping a Contest Sponsor from reneging upon their allocated delegation. It's a matter of Goodwill.
The irony is that the beneficiaries of this Honor System are obtaining the benefits, dishonorably. You send the bad guys to Heaven, and the good guys to Hell.
Somehow, our society has managed to parlay itself into stupidity with the mantra, "Don't Judge Me!" Are truth-tellers not to be elevated over liars? The loyal over traitors? The honorable over the dishonorable?
Of necessity, human beings are judgment-making machines. Indeed, it is one of our primary survival advantages. Being able to accurately distinguish friend from foe is a matter of life and death. And yet, all this baloney ... despite the obvious evidence to the contrary ... about there being no way to distinguish between the truth and a lie, the fair and the unfair or quality vs crap. Everything's subjective.
Personally, being a fellow morally comfortable with using the brain that I've been given (on the assumption that that's what it's there for), I don't lose much sleep over elevating the noble while castigating the cretin.
Quill