Comments on: Is common sense reasserting itself?

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:21:20 +0000

The difference between the adult and the kid isn’t the fear itself, but what they can do about it. The kids don’t have access to powerful tools to make their desires real. Adults, however, do.

If they don’t know how to kill evil, I or others like me, will merely teach them. If they lack the tools, they can buy the tools, or find someone to make them the tools. All they have to have, in the end, is the mere “desire” to do so.

Does the slave wish to be free or does the slave wish to remain a slave? Two paths from one life.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:18:55 +0000

Oh there’s a bunch of people who dislike the Leftist regime. They just aren’t organized, and thus have no real power. It’s similar to how some slaves dislike their circumstance, while others prefer to keep whatever safety and stability they do have. This usually gets thrown in a pressure cooker until it ends up in a huge death revolt.

By: Spartacus

Spartacus — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:24:02 +0000

Every time I see one of these “Alice suspended from Wonderland, sent back to real world” stories, I can’t help but think that the school is doing the kid a favor. If Mom & Dad pick up their marbles and send Alice to a more sensible school as a result, hallelujah. Or if they at least just have that important talk with Alice about how “Sometimes, grown-ups try to teach you things that are bat-**** crazy, so be careful what you believe,” then at least that’s an important step forward.

By: Libby

Libby — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:09:33 +0000

Hubby and I talked about this – how kids seem to be hardwired to play these sorts of games: cops vs.robbers, cowboys vs. indians, aliens vs. humans, etc. My son played FBI vs. bad guys with his buddies during recess throughout 2nd & 3rd grade. After this imaginary grenade story came out he admitted that they had been advised not to use finger guns by some teacher/monitor killjoy. Seems that they’re just engaging in some role play about right vs. wrong behavior, or good vs. evil. Shouldn’t be a big deal.

By: jj

jj — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:14:06 +0000

“They have very little control over their lives, and their world is peopled with danger…” A comment that gets me thinking, a bit. As adults our world isn’t? You have no more control over your life than any eight-year old you’re apt to encounter does. Your money buys 20% less than it did five years ago – what are you going to do about it? Your savings, retirement, and the value of your home has turned to offal – what are you going to do ab out it? If a bunch of guys you never heard of working for a company you never heard of stop backing their trucks up to the loading dock at the local supermarket and it becomes as empty as the kid’s cookie jar – what are you going to do about it? If the morons who annoy us all at the airport miss the one guy who actually has a bomb – a perfectly likely scenario given the splendid professionalism of the TSA – what are you going to do about it? If the truck doesn’t arrive at the gas station twice a week – what are you going to do about it? If it does, but the price of the gas quadruples in the next 48 hours – what are you going to do about it? A heavily armed and dangerous moron with a shitty attitude fires a bunch of wild shots while in pursuit of somebody, and a couple of them arrive in your lap, as happened in this latest California spasm of cop idiocy – what are you going to do about it?

You think your world is safer and more ordered than the kid”s? Really? You’re just older, that’s all. The kid’s view of what can screw his life up beyond repair is a little inchoate, yours is a lot more fully formed. Which means that you should be, if anything, about ten times as scared as any kid: you can see what’s coming.

By: rick9911

rick9911 — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:51:16 +0000

I just read about you in “Crazifornia”.

By: JKB

JKB — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:01:05 +0000

Seems like the kid made a perfectly valid choice in the circumstance. Bad guys boxed in, no innocents in line of fire, dynamic entry posed a high risk to the good guys, so he used grenades. Very appropriate decision.