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  • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 7 months ago
    This is what comes of the "force" mentality. By force, I mean civil servants and other power-mongers believing they have the moral authority to force behavior and thought on people. "They" have determined that gun violence is a real problem, and every inhabitant is a potential mass-murderer, so they ignore centuries of "boys being boys" and coerce their behavior.

    They'd have gone crazy about me in grade school. I wore an army fatigue costume to school, and occasionally take my toy M1 Springfield rifle (complete with wooden simulated bullet) or other toy gun to school to play with with my friends.

    It's most pervasive in society as political correctness, but the campaigns are unending. From the coercion of forced equality (based on whatever arbitrary standard they choose) to the campaign of "climate change" (the hoax behind the carbon credit con), to controlling the thoughts and behavior of children through media propaganda and forced behavior (both forbidden and required) such as requiring students to watch pro-administration propaganda or punishing them for saying the wrong words, expressing the wrong thoughts or engaging in the wrong play.
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    • Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 7 months ago
      You think whoever is in the White House influences rules at local schools? Maybe someone in President Obama's cabinet works local school boards to make it against the rules to shape your finger like a gun? I don't think that happens. To me the entire problem comes from middle class education being paid for by property taxes, instead of people just buying education directly.

      I don't think there's something wrong with people sending their kids to schools that disallow pretending a finger is a gun. I wouldn't use the school, but it's a free country if someone else wants to.

      I most certainly would not want my kids to learn politics and wishful thinking in place of science. It's not child-abuse to teach them things like climate change are political issues and, contrary to the current scientific understanding, the world operates _exactly_ as we wish it would. Although I remember wishing scientific opinion would say fat is good for you, and the evidence has sort of moved us in that direction in the past 20 years, so sometimes what you wish turns out to be true.

      All the coercion comes from when they take your taxes to pay for the school. Down the road they're teaching kids to talk to their imaginary friend (talk about wishful thinking!), and I'm not trying to stop them. It's when they _take our money_ to pay for schooling that it becomes a problem.
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