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Originally Posted by MEAD
I have a friend who went through the scouts and became an eagle scout, and let me tell you, he is the most unprepared and least responsibility person I know half the time. Is that to say the boy scouts are useless and teach you nothing? Do I base my entire opinion just on my limited personal experience?
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Law of large numbers, chief... not just a lame generalization.
- How many Boy Scouts make it to Eagle? (very small number)
- How many college kids get a degree? (very large number)
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Boy Scouts was fun until they told us we couldn't have knives or make fires anymore.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
i think that with even a little imagination you could figure out a much wider range of possibilities for such a program than that tiny list, crompsin.
give it a try.
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Hahah! Don't overestimate my ambition here, now. I'm not that smart.
I suppose I could suggest something grand (social program?) like national free health care service heavily augmented by national service "volunteers" made up primarily of young adults "doing their time," etc.
Countries like Israel and Norway and others have required government service, usually military... but sometimes domestic duties / office jobs.
But... why would I do such a thing? I have all the literary / verbal eloquence of a G.A. Romero zombie.
That... and I have you to pontificate for me.