Big brother has taken over for personal responsibility. A local University president shut down his campus for a day because a student made a hurtful comment online. Nobody got hurt, other than some feelings. Free speech was quashed to protect the esteem challenged
clay On Jan 5, 2016, at 11:28 AM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes wrote: > If recent reporting from several college campuses is to be believed, "we" > have produced a generation that believes society (the government) is > responsible for protecting them from everything, even from hearing something > they don't agree with. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Of Curt >> Raymond via Mercedes >> >> You're probably right, a lot of it is fear driven. We live in the safest >> world we've ever known, crime is down, sickness is down, hunger is down, >> poverty is down. As a species we're pretty poor at judging risks. I read >> a thing the other day that said if you poll people they'll tell you how >> dangerous unprotected sex is, where in the real world long car trips are >> much more likely to get you hurt of killed... >> -Curt >> >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
