everyone wants their kid to be a free spirit, not a follower or a conventionalist. as if the default opposite of "follower" is "leader". just keep them from being a follower and they'll be a leader, right? nah, MOST your "free spirits" grow up to be directionless PUNKS! without RESPECT for ANY convention or institution or authority :/
Classic response from a conformist regressive klannish...how very much like Hammity, Man Coulter, Bill O'Idiot and other orthodox klones... Paint by number thinkers...
Lack of creativity + totalitarian thinking=Nazi, Communist, Big Brother, New World Order...you name it, if it smacks of conformity, you can be sure it is being promoted by the ruling class and their Kool Aid drinking blind followers...
Since you are so far left, I wonder if you would be opposed to wearing a Mao suit. I bet you would rook marverous.
More conformity: <img src=http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/research/theology/ejournal/aejt_4/images/islam_prayer.jpg> <img src=http://www.cornermark.com/hiddenfolder/enemies/hezbollah_hamas_nazi_salute.jpg> <img src=http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:4TrhkxsPFHAM1M:%3Ca> <img src=http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:IDmuszRXSC_x8M:%3Ca> The klannish of course confuse natural order, which is simultaneiously ripe with diversity, with conformity of thought...
Boy scouts was not much about militarization really. It was about a kid learning to DO THINGS when I was a kid. I would take the handbook when I was bored in the afternoons and learn to work with knots, I leaned to do geometry by measuring the height of a tree without climbing it, etc. I see people all the time that CANT DO THINGS with their hands. They usually are huge trouble makers. One of them used to brag that he took more LSD than Timothy Leary, then he would get drunk and threaten to kill me. I wonder if there is sociological work to associate abilities to do things with suceess in life? I worked for a guy that had every merit badge available when he was a teenager, I'm talking Eagle Scout of eagle scouts. He was cool to work for, he realized I could DO THINGS and he let me and then I got fat raises year after year and he got all his work done. I have worked for people that can't do much of anything and they SUCK SO BAD THE GROUND AROUND THEM IS ALWAYS CLEAN. They are always political bastards that are worried way more about image than substance.