Originally Posted by Kestrel
Many employers limit personal freedoms as a stipulation for employment. For instance, you can be terminated for using drugs, even if it is after hours and doesn't affect your ability to work. A more extreme case is like mine, where I am not allowed to travel to certain countries and all my personal travel outside the US must be reported and is periodically monitored. This dress code is a condition of employment, and not an unreasonable one at that; if the players don't like it, they are certainly welcome to find other jobs.
Oh god, please don't get me started on the drug rule at work. Let's just say I don't agree with a positive weed test being grounds for termination when you performace is not affected. But back on subject, the dress code is being enforced as a means of cleaning up the image of the league, which unfortunately for the league, will not accomplish that goal for the many reasons I have already stated.
Originally Posted by Kestrel
Haven't you seen headlines like 'Police Officer convicted of beating wife' or 'Police officer convicted of taking bribes'? Their personal lives are out there, too for all of us to see.
Joe Public makes the newspaper everyday for things like that, that's not saying anything. When's the last time you heard of helicopters full of paparazzi hovering over an officers wedding location to try to get an exclusive photo of the wedding party? When's the last time you heard of the media disclosing the gift an officer bought for his wife in his attempt to make peace with her after being named as the defendant in a sexual abuse case that didn't include her? When's the last time you heard of officers being forced to give interviews in the locker room while they're trying to get dressed after a tough day on the job? So yes, peace officers are public figures who's business can make headlines, just as any other citizen in the country. The difference is that NBA players are routinely subject to invasion of privacy. And it's this invasion that allows the media to gain far too much information on these guys and they don't stand a chance in hell of emerging unscathed under such scrutiny, unless you're a Magic Johnson type of guy.
Originally Posted by Kestrel
Also, since basketball players are more public figures, it makes more sense to make them look better. If people already assume your average basketball player is an arrogant prick with a thuggish background, why enforce the stereotype by letting them look like thugs?
Let's not provide an excuse for ignorance.
Originally Posted by RB
Hahaha, what a lame excuse. That is such a cop out for people who are uneducated and don't realize they're spouting bullshit. Psychology is the study of what happens in teh real world, you lamer. I think most of us have tried to spell it out for you as simple as humanly possible, but you still think that its just boils down to better clothes = better attitudes.
How many examples must be provided which discredit your crackhead theory? Enron, Martha Stewart, Kobe Bryant, George Bush, Ron Artest, Rae Carruth, the list can go on and on.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.