This study in contrasts is very telling. It is widely recognized and appreciated that a magnanimous winner is the bigger person, the better person, the more desirable person to be around—the person who has the high ground and will garner the greatest respect and appreciation. One can be a gracious and magnanimous loser, and that would be a more thorough set of conditions to ponder. One can appreciate the prowess and skills of another individual that bests them in doing something and appreciate what that represents. To applaud them for their ability and accomplishments is a loving gesture that does not take away from the self but raises the self up. To become a gracious and magnanimous loser restores a balance and restores a kind of equality that both are worthy. And perhaps the one who is being put on the spot in a kind of competition, who does their best, takes the risks of competing, knowing they may well lose and be labeled a "loser," but yet can stand strong, continue to value themselves and be appreciative and generous to the winner who beat them is showing character. So to the extent that competitions have any value, it is the opportunity to show how in divine alignment each participant might be, and that is the willingness to treat the other players as equals and to not use the outcome of a contest as a means to extend or deny equal treatment or acceptance when the entire exercise is based on a faulty premise that some are better than others in ways that matter.
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