On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:14:48 PDT, Rob Thompson said: > this as sheer laziness and quite frankly it's rather pathetic. Passing > the buck isn't okay. We count on the schools to raise our kids and the > ISP to police the interwebs. Bullshit!
It may come as a surprise to you - but a large number of people *do* count on the schools to do a large part of the educating and socializing of the young ones. There's an awful amount of stuff that kids learn in school that parents are *not* in a good position to teach - everything from Egyptian history to how to play well with others on a softball team. Might want to pick a better analogy - the days when we could all homeschool our kids are *long* gone, if they ever existed at all...) For that matter, our entire economic system only works because of passing the buck - every time you use a credit card, or write a check, you're passing the buck to somebody else. And even using cash rather than bickering and bartering how many goats that pair of shoes is worth is passing the buck... ;) Bottom line - unless you live off the grid, in a house you built with your own two hands using tools you manufactured yourself and material you gathered yourself, "passing the buck isn't okay" is just a tad hypocritical...
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