... from Pete Sanders (posted in the thread about the 12-year-old "gambler").

This post was perhaps the most profound statement ever made on this BB and is worth being highlighted separately from that thread (which got kinda messy because a few of us weren't making ourselves very clear).

Pete said:

> If you teach children to blindly obey authority
> they will grow up to be blindly obedient.

> I'm not scared of the people who have no respect
> for authority, but I am terrified by those who
> never question it.

In part, that was what I was trying to say, but Pete did it with a simplicity and clarity that was escaping me.

Thanks, Pete. ----- jim o\-S