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Not to threadjack, but...
What if we were required to to everything well intentioned people said we should be required do before finishing high school and college.....
The list is something like:
Mandatory volunteering during school. Some say full time during summer and part time during the school year.
Mandatory military service. What's a couple more years to an already 16 years of education?
Mandatory post college Peace Corps?
Mandatory travel.
Well, that's the short list. Questions are: Who is going to pay for all of this? How long is it going to be before a person can become a productive/producing member of our society?
In theory, I support the sentiments of most of the above, as far as churning out more well rounded people, but you're going to have to remove a lot of our freedom of choosing how we want to end up, and making other people pay for it, because I don't see a way to require people to pay for things that they are being forced to do. I'm sure others could come up with scads of reasons not to do any of them.
I know you weren't suggesting forcing people to do these things, but I'm a little wary of people saying things should be mandatory, because the politicians might try and make it so, you know, for our own good. Plus I can't afford travel, and I'm jealous
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