[Cobra Mgr]

Originally Posted by uruguru

Maybe there's confusion here. You asked me to prove that wasn't Rose's intent. In other words, you are asking me to prove a negative. That's simply not possible.

And when that negative proof involves reading the mind of someone (i.e their intent), then it has moved into the realm of absurdity.

Maybe not everyone realizes that you can't prove a negative. So now you know.

TL;DR Your question was invalid.

When you ask for intent, you are always asking what was going on in the mind. You did the very same thing when you posed the challenge to prove he intended to help gamblers. So how in the world can you criticize others when your argument is thrown right back at you, dude?

That was my point.

It doesn't matter what intent was. What mattered was what the act was. It was banned to do what he did,. He did it. He knew the penalty. Cause he NEGOTIATED HIS EXILE. You don't plea bargain your execution reasoning maybe they will get rid of the death sentence later. You do it w/the hope to keep the ugly facts from getting out publicly. He went into the whole thing with open eyes. He knew he was guilty. Whether it was to feed his family, just for kicks or thumb his nose @ the major leagues. HE WAS GUILTY.

So stop trying to clean it up. You're trying to deny someone was an illegal drug dealer just because he pushed opioids for Pfizer & not the Crips. Pete Rose bet on baseball. PERIOD. He got what he knew was coming to him & nobody persecuted him.