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<blockquote data-quote="muttmeister" data-source="post: 309424" data-attributes="member: 135"><p>Part of the problem is that half of the people in the country have taken leave of their senses. I'm beginning to believe that there are more nuts in the world than sane people, and with the nuts I include a good percentage of parents, teachers, school administrators, lawyers, judges, and the list goes on. </p><p>A gun catalog in school? NUTS</p><p>Sexually explicit materials in grade school? NUTS</p><p>Forbidding the mention of birth control? NUTS</p><p>Censoring Shakespeare? NUTS</p><p>Banning anything you disagree with? NUTS</p><p>AND THE LIST GOES ON</p><p> </p><p>School librarians and teachers and administrators are supposed to be sensible enough to provide materials that are appropriate for the kids they are serving AND MOST ARE VERY GOOD AT THEIR JOBS but, as they say, it only takes one bad apple to ruin the whole lot.</p><p> </p><p>Parents are supposed to look out for the interests of their own kids without trying to force their ideas on people with different ones. MOST ARE GOOD AT THAT TOO but the others are becoming more and more vocal and more and more abundant.</p><p> </p><p>For some reason it seems that right now everybody has a short fuse. We have beome intolerant and rude and loud and obnoxious. There are time when people disagree with me and I find myself reacting rudely and wanting to shout great obscenities at them, even though I know a calm, soft answer would be better. Why have we all become so tightly strung and so intolerant of other people's views? It seems to me that that is one of the main problems of the present time. If you don't agree with me I'm going to shout you down and call you stupid and try to get hundreds of people to march against you. Instead I should be trying to talk to you calmly and if my ideas are so great, they should be self apparent. </p><p>I think I'll go eat some chocolate. Of course, if there was somebody in my house who was allergic to it, they'd probably try to sue me!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muttmeister, post: 309424, member: 135"] Part of the problem is that half of the people in the country have taken leave of their senses. I'm beginning to believe that there are more nuts in the world than sane people, and with the nuts I include a good percentage of parents, teachers, school administrators, lawyers, judges, and the list goes on. A gun catalog in school? NUTS Sexually explicit materials in grade school? NUTS Forbidding the mention of birth control? NUTS Censoring Shakespeare? NUTS Banning anything you disagree with? NUTS AND THE LIST GOES ON School librarians and teachers and administrators are supposed to be sensible enough to provide materials that are appropriate for the kids they are serving AND MOST ARE VERY GOOD AT THEIR JOBS but, as they say, it only takes one bad apple to ruin the whole lot. Parents are supposed to look out for the interests of their own kids without trying to force their ideas on people with different ones. MOST ARE GOOD AT THAT TOO but the others are becoming more and more vocal and more and more abundant. For some reason it seems that right now everybody has a short fuse. We have beome intolerant and rude and loud and obnoxious. There are time when people disagree with me and I find myself reacting rudely and wanting to shout great obscenities at them, even though I know a calm, soft answer would be better. Why have we all become so tightly strung and so intolerant of other people's views? It seems to me that that is one of the main problems of the present time. If you don't agree with me I'm going to shout you down and call you stupid and try to get hundreds of people to march against you. Instead I should be trying to talk to you calmly and if my ideas are so great, they should be self apparent. I think I'll go eat some chocolate. Of course, if there was somebody in my house who was allergic to it, they'd probably try to sue me! [/QUOTE]
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