This country has officially gone insane

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Parents deliberately exposing their children to chicken pox because they refuse to get them vaccinated.


Not only are these loons abusing their kids by exposing them to potentially deadly diseases, they're actually sending the viruses through the mail.

Read that again. SENDING THE VIRUSES THROUGH THE MAIL.

So not only are they trying to infect their children, they're also potentially exposing any postal workers who handle their diseased envelopes, as well as other letters and packages which could infect completely unrelated citizens.

This is a level of insanity that I never thought I'd see in the U.S. This used to be a country that prided itself on the basic education of its citizens. But with the erosion of public trust in science and the destruction of school curricula, we've gotten to the point where actual adults - people entrusted with the LIVES OF CHILDREN - think it's somehow a good idea to send DEADLY DISEASES THROUGH THE MAIL.

This is beyond headdesk crazy. This gets to the level of actually killing yourself through noggin-bashing. We've reached the stage of apocalypse, kids. Soon we'll be barricading ourselves in our houses to avoid the staggering hordes of drooling know-nothings.

I hope if any of you even HEARS of anyone you know getting up to this crazy shit, you will call the authorities IMMEDIATELY. This is utterly and completely illegal. A person will do serious jail time for this, as WELL THEY SHOULD.


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Comments

[honeyandvinegar.livejournal.com]

Don't get me wrong, I agree that Americans have done themselves a grand disservice in having pride in their monolingual-ness. I wish I'd have learned French as a toddler, as a giant chunk of my fam is French. I took it in high school, for 2 1/2 years; gave up when I just couldn't get a grasp on it, at least when it comes to conjugations. So on that point, I most definitely, heartily agree.

But my main point was, as I said, the only reason that kid is getting Klingon 101 is because the parents are obsessed fans. I highly doubt that they're doing it for the reasons you give; if they are, they WOULD have chosen to teach him a more useful language--maybe two--but whatever the case, like samena said, I think it's so totally wrong NOT because "it's not English, we're Americans, damn it!", but that the teaching Klingon is an indoctrination into a fandom the kid knows nothing about. What are they going to tell his school at the first meet-up they have with teachers and the like?

Teacher: *big smile* So, how are your child's speaking skills?
Mom: We speak Klingon in our house!
Teacher: ....

It isn't to say we all have to be automatons, blithely following standards of living in a world without riling it up or having fun, but come. on. When the kid enters the school halls, no one there is going to think, "My, that's so special and wonderful." One has to think of the teachers themselves, already having trouble teaching English-speaking students altogether, never mind a child scaring the other kids in class when he asks "Can I go to the bathroom?"

I suppose I have the same views on any parenting technique, my main one being that a child is his/her own person that should be taught the basics, given the tools in general then makes the choice to do otherwise when they have their own choices to make. This goes for anything: circumcision, religion and following a fandom. This kid is following a fandom before he even knows it exists, and if he gets teased/bullied/singled-out because their parents decided he'd be a fun experiment instead of a person to raise, that could prove to be a major, major mistake.

Then again, the kid might love it, be accepted and get through life just fine. But it's a gamble there, to me at least.

Ranty-rant, go me, lol.