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Old April 26th 07, 09:57 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default OT - 10 steps to fascist police state

Jose wrote:
Near the end of
this WEEK of training I was asked to walk into the play ground
looking for my dog that I lost and see if the kids can put what they
learned about not talking with or going away with strangers to
practical use. I was able to get every single one of the 30 or so kids to
walk off
with me. Scared the crap out of me and the parents that were
watching the kids from inside the building.


What would you have them do? Refuse to talk to you and run screaming?
What kind of adults would they turn into?

We get the kind of society we create.

Yes, there are dangers, yes children need to be taught how to
discriminate between good people and bad people (even grownups have a
hard time with that), and yes, "my child" is different. But there is
a real societal cost to this kind of training, which could easily be
far worse, and far harder to undo (because it's a far longer term),
than watching movies without purple dinosaurs.

Jose



I guess I didn't make myself clear. These kids after being taught safety for
a week were willing to not just talk to me but walk away from the play
ground into the parking lot where I could have easily stuck them in a car an
driven away.

And to answer your questions I would want them to go to an adult they knew
and tell them that a stranger was trying to get them to go to the parking
lot with them.