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Agreed. Please take that rationalization in the context of the rest.
It sucks, but the negative reaction to killing the bears may do more good than would negative PR from fining the parents. Maybe. Then again, is it Texas that has the idiot tax? I could see it being applied in this case.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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