HiBC:
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Doofus...I hope I did not give the wrong impression.I am not selling the teachers or other staff short.
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Oh no, you're not. I didn't mean to imply that.
Back in 2013 before our local stupidness took over, I watched our glorious legislature grill a girl from CSU who had been assaulted and now carries. One of them reminded her that "her odds of defense even with a gun weren't good and she was endangering herself more by carrying."
I sat up and blinked.
What if they were talking to some poor kid who lived in a neighborhood that was high-crime and who went to a school district that had a low-graduation rate?
Would that representative also tell that kid "the odds are against you: don't try to make yourself better?"
I'm completely done with any philosophy that doesn't recognize the basic resilience of human beings. That rep should have congratulated her for doing whatever she could to never again be a victim.