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Date Posted: 09:16:50 05/10/02 Fri
Author: Hobsonphile
Subject: Addendum: More on your unfair underestimation of Scott
In reply to: Wakener 's message, "Re: But she didn't just express an opinion" on 02:15:29 05/10/02 Fri

Also, if Scott is really just a craven follower of the rule book, and not a man animated by deeper beliefs, how do you explain his willingness last week to stretch the rules for Ronnie's student? How do explain his unwillingness to take advantage of the situation when Harvey asked him point-blank if he should quit? How do you explain him turning around and sincerely defending Harry's knocking a student unconscious (though initially he was incensed)? How do you explain him changing his mind on "It's Our Town Too?" How do you explain his quiet and respectful rebuttal of Marilyn's concerns about the date auction? Or, to go way, way back, how do you explain the fact that he was the first one after Marla to stand in Steven's defense in front of the school board, despite the fact that their values are different and they often disagree? People who are driven by internal values are more able to stretch the boundaries- and while Scott can sometimes be overly rigid, enough evidence exists to show that he is absolutely capable of this stretching.

When he told Lauren that he considered discipline itself as a greater good, he MEANT IT. He also MEANS IT when he expresses concerns about excessive leniency or lack of academic rigor. He doesn't express these ideas because he is clinging to some sort of external source of self-esteem- he expresses these ideas because he SINCERELY BELIEVES THEM.

The truly weak men, sir, are the ones who have no moral center at all- the ones who feel no obligation to any belief or person. The weak men are the deadbeat dads, the chronically unemployed, the recidivists, etc.

Steph

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