Re: Coddling children


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Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on November 11, 2006 at 21:33:18 from 80.3.128.6 user Laurence_.

In Reply to: Re: Coddling children posted by Rob Marshall on November 11, 2006 at 14:38:54:

It seems that the US generally have far fewer restrictions on childrens or adult ativities than in the UK.

I'm not so sure. We don't have rules forbidding bathing after a specific date, we don't have anything like the US Coastguard controlling what we do with our boats, nobody restricts our right to go onto mountains or into caves. I remember being forbidden to go beyond certain limits in the Grand Tetons because I didn't have the appropriate certificates of competence - in the UK there are no such certificates of competence or anybody to demand that you have them.

Admittedly we don't consider it an absolute right to carry guns, but that is a freedom most of us would happily prefer to forego.


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