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YABI. Why even ask for the second match? Was your initial study incomplete, or, perhaps, flawed? If so, why did you not include that detail in this post? If not, your rendezvous with this old classmate seems like nothing more than an exercise in redundancy at best. I posit that you have fallen victim to the emotion humans refer to as pride. One of their most basic negative emotions, if I correctly recall my ancient human history course.

It is my recommendation that you take a leave of absence from Starfleet. You have clearly spent too much time among humans. A decade or so of meditation in a monastery should help you to reclaim your logic.

You are being illogical. It is well known that the Federation as a whole, and humans specifically, practice a belief in equality, where they do not believe in inherent superiority, and it is illogical to try and force them to believe otherwise. It is a very... emotional reaction to try and prove them wrong, when it does not affect you in any way.

It would be far more logical to get along with them, rather than rest on the belief of Vulcan superiority, and also participate in merry-making. It is not illogical to celebrate a friendly game, irrespective of whether one has won or lost.

NBI. Cultural exchange is not only one of the fundamental principles upon which the United Federation of Planets was built, but also among the purest expressions of IDIC.

If said cultural exchange were to reveal the innate superiority of the Vulcan species, one could hardly be held responsible.

Indeed, it would be an invaluable contribution to existing bodies of evidence demonstrating just that.

NBI for stating that you achieved the scoring conditions necessary for victory within the sporting match. EIH overall. Spending potentially productive time during an active war on frivolous sporting matches is illogical. The human "Ben" and non-Vulcans for overly celebrating a meager score is illogical. YABI for not accepting the tenets of IDIC, not attempting to absorb the POV of other species, and basing multiple papers on one anecdote instead of collecting more evidence or focusing on other behaviors. Despite the frivolous match, the logical thing would have been to encourage morale by congratulating them on their exerted effort, as this would reflect a reward for similar exerted efforts during an interstellar conflict that you mentioned.

What up with abbreviations? Me stupid?!

NBI. A captain of mine once said that it is possible to commit no mistakes and yet still lose. Perhaps your opponent was celebrating having made no mistakes?