boyscouts ... not for my child

Quote from man:

yes, camping is fine.
yes, every day a good deed is fine.
yes, friendship is fine.
yes, having some discipline is fine.

unfortunately, i can't help it, i don't want uniforms, ranks,
flags and other military detail for my child. i think you can
get the pros without need to bear the cons. makes me
even more left than i already am, i know.
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Uniforms? Lots of people wear uniforms that are not militaristic. Nurses, janitors, airline pilots, bus drivers, athletes...well you get the idea.

Scout Oath

On my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong,
mentally awake, and morally straight.

Scout Law

A Scout is:
Trustworthy Loyal
Helpful Friendly
Courteous Kind
Obedient Cheerful
Thrifty Brave
Clean Reverent

I suppose I could see where some of this is uh, well..."objectionable".

I was a scout in the mid 70's. Some of my fondest memories growing up are of
scouting.

Among many others I earned both the first Aid and Lifesaving merit badges. Can I assume the PC police wouldn't object to those skills?
 
Quote from rcanfiel:


Millions died to give you the ability to even freely post.
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:D You are fucking funny ... you talk as if you are serious ... millions died for freedom ... haha ... they died in vain ... cause there is no fucking freedom ... ya you post freely ... but once the supercomputers come across a sentence that just sounds so fucking fishy ... and you keep posting those kinds of posts ... I wonder how many days it will take for you to end up in somewhere like guantanamo bay ... that is if you are lucky!
 
ZZZzzzzzzz, that was one of the coolest series of pictures I have seen ... specially with those muslim asses up in the air :D
 
Quote from nutmeg:

"assisting development instead of pushing it creates
inidividuals ... not followers."

Actually, the uniform (couldn't we call it a dress code rather than refer to it as military) assists in the development of the individual. The uniform takes away the individuality yet at the same time forces the individual to set himself apart from all of his look alike counterparts through character/learning achievments. As far as badges and flags, clearly a merit approach, a carrot without the stick, improves self-esteem, through accomplishment.

Just for the record though, I was never in the boy scouts, I couldn't handle any authority at any age although I'm sure I would survived without any major psychological damage from wearing a uniform or a badge as a boy scout.
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my way of thinking is more fundamental in that i
prefer to encourage development rather than enforcing
it - and taking away individuality is kind of enforcement
trick. and by development i mean most of all the ability
to be creative, since this is at the very core of our
nature as humans.
 
Quote from FightTheFuture:

Since you are so far left, I wonder if you would be opposed to wearing a Mao suit. I bet you would rook marverous.
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well, a maoist would probably see in me the rightest
thing he'd ever seen.
 
Quote from bluud:

ZZZzzzzzzz, that was one of the coolest series of pictures I have seen ... specially with those muslim asses up in the air :D
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only "cool" to you because he hasn't CUT INTO your nerve yet.. what's important to you.

give him time.. your next :/
 
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