I saw a stupid article yesterday that infuriated me in terms of some midwest school giving detention for kids hugging. Or any manner of physical contact EXCEPT for certains contact sports like wrestling and football. This is such a ridiculous ruling that students are not allowed to touch. It's so arbitrary and ANTI-SOCIAL. Where do these midwest schools get half their ideas from? Are they attempting to create an alienated world of socialphobes whose intuition is that proximity is reprehensible? This is another instance of social darwinism in reverse (build a dumber human).
The best part about that article (actually it's not referenced below and I cannot find it) is that contact sports are validated. We're talking about acts of violence. Reminds me of the whole South Park movie where they say how acts of violence is okay as long as no swear words are used. Does anyone realize how stupid this sounds!???!?!!?!
When you see something as ludicrous as this, you have to think about a bigger picture. What society has become (as we continue to say for years). Well, the way I look at it is that social convention (which is what we're seeing, not any real validations of ethics nor morality here) is just stupid and lacking in common sense. So they use an overarching rule to prevent the schools from receiving lawsuits from possible sexual harassment and make the students, rather than the parents and teachers, accountable for these acts.
What these schools do not realize is that they are creating hostile and prohibitive social environments. Then again this is what the midwest of America is all about. Prohibition, inhibition and repression. It's why America mostly suffers since we have to tolerate their inability to tolerate. Makes me wish that a huge tornado swept through the midwest and cleaned up these dirt patches. No loss there.
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