# Would you have cancelled the game?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-cancelled-the-game/402070>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 29, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-cancelled-the-game/402070 "2007-04-29T18:41:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-cancelled-the-game/402070/41 "2007-05-04T23:20:44Z")

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[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink]  
Well, maybe it was, in the classical sense: a basically good guy has a fatal flaw that causes his downfall.  
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Yeah, if his flaw was “driving like a dumbass.” I don’t mean to be a smart alec to you, and I appreciate your reasoned response, but pot \*and \*alcohol \*and \*no seat belt \*and \*talking on a phone \*and \*speeding in a construction zone \*and \*arranging to do more drinking?

In a classical sense a \*hero \*has a tragic flaw that proves his undoing. Hancock was no hero. He just a Joe Schmoe who thought that laws, and the rules of common sense, did not apply to him. I don’t see how this makes him a “basically good guy.” Sure, he may have done good things in his life, but I am going to hazard a guess that this was not he first time for him to drive in such a way as to endanger everyone else on the road. If true, that makes him a bad guy in my book.

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-cancelled-the-game/402070/42 "2007-05-04T23:34:12Z")

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[QUOTE=Contrapuntal]  
Sure, he may have done good things in his life, but I am going to hazard a guess that this was not he first time for him to drive in such a way as to endanger everyone else on the road. If true, that makes him a bad guy in my book.  
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Fair enough. I meant besides that—but that might be like saying, “Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?”

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