In school we played a pretty violent game of keep-away. The guy with the ball got clobbered if he didn't get rid of it in time. I bet that game can't be legally played on any schoolyard in America anymore.
--- Pete Theisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 30 August 2007 07:26, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I think there are other ways to reduce the > population, they just take > > >longer. But the principal is the same. > > > > I saw this morning where another group is working > on ways to reduce the > > population, at least of the US... by turning the > kids into wimps! > > > > > http://www.comcast.net/news/strange/index.jsp?cat=STRANGE&fn=/2007/08/29/75 > >0907.html&cvqh=itn_cyberslacking > > > > The administration at the Discovery Canyon Campus > elementary school has > > banned the game of tag! More PC run amok. > > Hi Larry! > > The issues resolved by a PC response all seem to > involve judgement. Judgement, > unless I am mistaken, requires a shared system of > core values. The concept of > core values as we knew them went down with Monica's > dress. > > There are "tags" that simply touch the person and > there are "tags" that put > the person in the hospital. We no longer have the > value system to > discriminate between such things, so we can't teach > them. If we can't teach > something we ban it. > -- > Regards, > > Pete > http://www.pete-theisen.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: > http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, > are the opinions of the author, and do not > constitute legal or medical advice. This statement > is added to the messages for those lawyers who are > too stupid to see the obvious. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
