If you fire your coach every time you disagree with him...

[randomness]

...why do you bother having one at all?

Comments

[3diff.livejournal.com]

Scapegoat?

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

That is an excellent and entirely plausible answer, and yet I suspect it is not what is going on here.

[dpolicar]

To buy the emotional value of having an authority figure agree with me.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

And their value becomes negative as soon as they disagree? Yeah, I think you're onto something here.