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There's traditions around this race, and it's okay if you don't agree with them but not being part of the community that embodies these traditions means you cannot come in and redefine them.

Also, no offence, but you clearly don't know enough about the race to really be talking about how it should be operated.

This race is full of obscure rules and insanely harsh conditions, it's just how it goes.

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Ahh but the parent poster is part of the community that doesn't believe that the Barkley community is fair, so you cannot come in and define that community because you clearly don't know enough about it to really be talking about how it should be operated.

You can defend the race without telling someone else that he has no right to his own opinion.

That's not what's being said. What's being said is that 'kazinator's opinion does not count here, which is a different and much more reasonable assertion. Telling other people how to be is never valuable and always rude.

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