| Let's Discourage Progress [message #348326] |
Tue, 26 August 2008 08:37  |
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cheesesoda
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I'm not sure if any of you know about this, but there is a 9 year-old kid who has been told to stop pitching in his baseball league. It's not because he's too young or too old. It's not because he causes problems (intentionally). It's because he's too good. That's right, people are discouraging a kid from playing because he's TOO GOOD.
It's sad that we live in a society where we punish those for excelling at what they enjoy. Shouldn't it be the goal to want to improve ourselves to the level of those ahead of us instead of discourage others, so we don't feel bad about ourselves? It would seem so. We can't improve as a society if we discourage progress for the protection of others' feelings.
I understand these are children, and that's a little bit different from if they were adults. The last thing we want to do is to discourage kids from playing sports because they're not as good as others. However, in today's pussy liberal society, we focus way too much on protecting others' feelings from getting hurt. Instead of teaching our children to face adversity, we coddle them and teach them that they're perfect the way they are. Unfortunately, that's not true.
Nobody has the right to never be offended or to feel inferior. I've said that before, and I'll continue to say that. Without adversity, we are incapable of changing and improving. We didn't evolve because conditions were too good. Technology doesn't improve because society is perfect. There is always room for improvement, and it's that room for improvement that makes us better ourselves. Without it, we sit at a stand still. I don't know about anybody else, but I like the prospect of society changing and improving, rather than just sitting in a stagnant pool of complacency.
This is pretty much why I hate Socialism and Communism. Society doesn't improve when everybody's the same. What ambition do you have to improve when everything is given to you? You have little to none, and if you can't benefit from the improvement, then that makes it even more pointless to attempt to improve. The concept of everybody being equal is what's destroying society. If we embrace differences and allow people to succeed over others, society, as a whole, can do nothing but improve.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080825/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bby_too_good_to_pitch
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