FirstandLast wrote:JohnsonsEvilTwin wrote:Corrupt engineers ought to be made an example of, for reasons I explained.
If you want a whiter than white F1 you would have to empty half the pit lane.
Yes, and then be left with the honest half. And now you have flushed-out the cheats and liars you leave room for new honest, hard-working, engineers, previously frozen-out, to get their start and have successful careers.
And this is problematic or undesirable how?
If cheating, lying and stealing is as prevalent and widespread as you would have us believe, then that is exactly why it should be prosecuted ferociously, it is not an argument for ignoring it. Ignoring it, condoning it, is precisely how it would have gotten as bad as you now claim it to be.
You don't respond to increasing theft by making stealing legal. What you do is jump on the perpetrators hard and with both feet. You clarify the moral calculus for them, you make any slim risk of consequences worse than the potential benefits.
Rebalance risk/reward and state clearly for the avoidance of all doubt behaviours which are considered unacceptable and will not be tolerated or lightly excused.
Therefore this means not indulging in politically motivated immunities for cheats, consulting gigs and promotions for rogue engineers and not paddock passes for liars and racefixers.
The choice by Williams to employ cheats like Coughlan is therefore disappointing. Rather than team management stand-up for apparently beleaguered notions of integrity and honesty, rather than helping rebalance and correct the failed morality of F1, it instead chooses to help drag it further into the mire.
Williams can hire who they please, that is their right. Just as it is our right to hope the decision leads to nothing but abject failure for them.
Like I say, disappointing.
