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Antigen:
I don't think it was all that irrational. In fact, I think it would have been odd and spooky if kids had gone on with the fun just asif they hadn't just watched their friend kill himself. This was a period of mourning and commemoration. It happened to the kids about 5 - 8 years older than I was at the time. I was little.

By the time a new mix of kids came into the local culture and wanted to jump ramps, the cautionary tale was told again, and this time there was some parental and older sibling supervision to it. They still jump ramps in Lyons Park. I've seen the evidence in recent years. And some of the kids I grew up with are raising their kids in the same streets. I doubt they'll let anyone's kids push the sport so far. Maybe the next generation will forget and have to suffer the same hard lesson, we hope not!

But compare this laissez faire approach of relying on community and common sense instead of having to appoint a committee to study, codify and then enforce new ideas.

It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion.

--Joseph Goebbels
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JDavid:
I think I'd definitely not want a commitee of any kind.  Only administrators of the equipment, not the policies, with safeguards against fraud by something like multiple unrelated admins expected to always be able to show identical copies of the debates and polling.

I have envisioned this all the way from the present day to way into the future, and my personal outlook does tend to make what I am saying only necessary for however long it takes to out-poll big government into non-existence.  Once big government is gone, it may turn out that such a technological system might not be necessary once all descisions are really localized.

Froderik:
http://www.whitehouse.org/

:rofl:

JDavid:
whitehouse.org is funny as hell, especially the stuff about the First Lady... Lecturing America's parents on how to pack their kids for jail and keeping her hubby in line with the anonymous tips hotline.   :lol:



[ This Message was edited by: JDavid on 2003-04-12 01:00 ]

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