Your original post makes a couple of key assumptions: 1) that all people in the scenario are participants in a race, and 2) that all participants in the race are running in the same direction. Notice that I didn't say that your statement was wrong ("When you pass the second place runner...................you're now in second place"). I was just pointing out that it wasn't necessarily true.
Your original post makes a couple of key assumptions: 1) that all people in the scenario are participants in a race, and 2) that all participants in the race are running in the same direction. Notice that I didn't say that your statement was wrong ("When you pass the second place runner...................you're now in second place"). I was just pointing out that it wasn't necessarily true.