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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sure I'm in the minority here but I actually feel bad for the guy.  I can't quite put my finger on why, and I'm not making any excuses for him, but it seems the way he was raised had a lot to do with his "win at all costs, take no prisoners" mantra.  After reading his first book, I came away thinking that he is an incredible asshole but I felt he had been that way since he was a pre-teen; behavior that mirrored his mother's behavior (not saying she was/is an a-hole but based on what he wrote she seemed to be one tough lady who didn't take shit).  He started this life a bitter, broken boy raised by a tough as nails mother.  People like that don't learn empathy or compassion; they always feel like it's "me against the world"; they don't understand fairness because in their view "life isn't fair".  When he got into a sport that was riddled with doping and deceit, why would he rise above that when his view was most likely "can't beat 'em, join 'em."

Someone like Lance Armstrong can only change when everything comes crashing down.  In his case, it happened twice.  He seems to be a good, caring father.  There is no judgment or validation like the judgment or validation from your children; good and bad. Now that it has sunk in that his children have been hurt by all of his lies and deceit, he recognizes, on some level, that he is no better than the biological father that he hates and who hurt him by not wanting to be a part of his life. [b]Oprah asked what was the moral of the story and he didn't have a good answer. [/b] Lance's story is a semester long class on integrity, ethics and lying and why people do it in the manner in which he did it.

It's too easy to say that he is an a-hole, jerk, bully, etc... Yes! He is all of those things but there is a reason why and he just didn't know how to stop it.  I hope he is able to forgive himself when the time is right.[/quote]

He is a lost soul. He had no clue what to say.[/quote]

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