Bionic ethical question
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Six Million Dollar Man
jmsocool — 14 years ago(December 30, 2011 07:55 PM)
Is it wrong to use your bionic powers to beat your friend at a friendly game of tennis? It seems a little unfair to me.
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MovieKnut — 14 years ago(December 31, 2011 11:16 AM)
No way. If you were to use them for world domination, then I would have to say that was wrong. To use them to get one over on a friend is mandatory.
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rycki1138 — 14 years ago(February 25, 2012 04:37 PM)
That was exactly the reason Jaime Sommers quit as a professional tennis player. She felt she had an unfair advantage over the other players after she became bionic.
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geraldmpayne-344-803325 — 10 years ago(February 29, 2016 08:37 PM)
I can't believe I'm responding to this years later, but, "Into the Wayback Machine, Sherman!"
Jaime felt it would be an unfair advantage to compete professionally, plus that would probably have made TBW series too expensive to produce in terms of world travel or an attempt to portray it believably and made it maybe a little too much like a certain Bill Cosby/Robert Culp vehicle of the approximate period.
There is also the question of just how much innate ability one possessed prior to bionic enhancement and the lack of a "normal" switch They even explored this concept in episodes with the "Seven Million Dollar Man" where he complained that reducing him to normal wasn't fair, in that he was a world class athlete and normal for him was not as it might be for others a situation I believe they resolved. How one would gauge "normal" fascinates me endlessly.
Plus, I have to say that while Steve's occasional use of his abilities to beat others in a friendly contest or even for money on the golf course was always played for laughs and when money was involved the bet was equivalent only to what he had previously lost to his old friend the mechanic whose character's nickname(Shadetree?) escapes me at the moment.(actor who played the southern sheriff in a couple of Roger Moore James Bond Movies, Live and Let Die & The Man With the Golden Gun -likely the forerunner to Jackie Gleason's Buford T. Justice in Smokey & The Bandit.)
Plus, who could resist the occasional cheap shot if someone was making a career out of beating them and taunting them as was the case during a certain tennis game with a gent about to be replaced by a robot? John Saxon had it coming!