Pandering for votes

@twill Always. They know just how easy it is.

well, not that my goal is to make people like my posts, but to do more to explain my point of view:

The tournament took place on a weekend, and a lot of us have things that come up at that time. I don't believe in any sort of god, nor do I practice a religion, but it seems to me somewhat petty not to make an effort to meet people partway in this particular situation. I don't think they were asking for much (as I think they pointed out explicitly), and the competing teams were amenable to the moderate change request in schedules. This wasn't the Olympics (such as the famous situation depicted in the movie Chariots of Fire, though I don't know with confidence if that was based on a real incident).

In my own life, while there are times when it is annoying to me to have to drag myself into trying to accommodate people who believe differently than I do, I suspect there are times they could say the same of me. In this context I try to "do unto others as I would have them do unto me". If I'm only asking a moderate thing, I hope they will not be petty. Likewise, if they only ask me for a moderate thing, even if it's to accommodate a superstitious belief of theirs, I will weigh the context and if it seems like denying the accommodation would be petty, I will make the effort to meet them partway.