Suppose you're at a football game, and you're cheering for your team. You (and everyone else) cheer so loudly that the opposing team can't communicate with each other. False starts. Delays of game. Confusion on which play to run. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria. All these things happen because you and your fellow fans yell so loudly that the other team is frazzled and befuddled and disoriented. Bedazzled if you will.

If you do that, have you cheated? Have you created an environment for the opposing team that rises to the level of cheating?

Dr. Arthur Schafer thinks so. Dr. Schafer is a philosophy professor at the University of Manitoba. His recent op-ed in the Globe and Mail says if you cheer too loudly, you're cheating. (And if you want Deadspin.com's take on the article, check it out here.)

KJ and Jay evaluate his arguments and then close up with Jay giving an off-the-cuff argument for a Divine Command Theory of Referee Action.

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