Dillon Pyron wrote:
> [Default] Thus spake frijoli :
>
>> Mark (SF) wrote:
>>
>>> I wanted to strangle my stepsister and her husband when they vetoed a
>>> school trip from Michigan with her class band to London for their
>>> middle school daughter (who is a very intelligent, independent girl)
>>> because they felt it would be too dangerous.
>>>
>>> Mark
>> Well it's none of your business anyway. The world is a dangerous place
>> today. More so than it used to be. If the daughter was 18 and could pay
>> her way then let her go, otherwise the parents make the best decision
>> possible, based on what they think is right and fits there overall values.
>>
>> Sorry, but intelligence and independence don't necessarily make things
>> safer.
>>
>> Clay
>
> Clay, with your logic about "danger", you should probably stay home.
> Except for the dangers inherent with staying home.
>
> Do some risk analysis. A(H1N1), for instance. How many people in
> Mexico have contracted it? Out of how big a population?
>
> It seems that the world has become so rick averse that we are afraid
> of our own shadows. From Kennedy's speach to Armstong's speach was a
> little over 6 years. From Apollo 1 to Apollo 7 was about 20 months.
> It took two years of over analysis to get the STS back into space.
>
What the hell are you on about? I didn't say it was more dangerous I
said the "world" was more dangerous than it used to be, by a large
margin. I said one, it none of his business how they raise their
daughter, and two, just because Mark perceives dangers one way doesn't
make HIM correct.
They have to make decisions based on their understanding of what is
happening and whether they think it's acceptable for their daughter.
That doesn't make them xenophobic, or any other phobic for that matter.
I'll go wherever I wish to thanks. I never said I was afraid.
Clay |