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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][/quote] On the flip side of that coin we have a swimmer who is all star in almost all strokes but picked events to knock out the kids that were closest in her times and most likely to break her records. [/quote]

I recently argued in the "Summer Swim Brings Out the Crazy" thread that a very large percentage of the lineup paranoia expressed in this forum comes from parents who passionately advocate for their kids but do not fully grasp how swimming lineups work. This post is a good example: here we have a parent who is willing to mind read someone else's child, assign a complex and slightly malicious motivation to that child that does not make sense on its own terms, and conjure some sort of vague unfairness out of thin air.  
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I agree this comment (not yours- but the one you quoted) is either a troll, or a very stressed parent who doesn't really get it.  I think there are parents like this in every division, and they often really really think that people are out to get their children.  I'm not sure how to help them see reality more clearly.[/quote]

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