re: #638 Alberta Oil Peon

The language you use there makes it sound like you want to tar the entire Scouting movement with the bad behavior of a few kids in the one troop to which you briefly belonged.

That’s the same sort of “logic” the Leftosphere uses when they try to impugn the character of the entire U.S. military with the excesses of a few bad apples working at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Now there’s a leap.

Reading comprehension fail, much?

What I said was: And it gave me an interesting perspective on what a group claims to be and what it often is in reality.

Maybe I should have said “sometimes”.

I will tell you this: neither Scouting nor the US Military nor any other human institution even begins to come close to thinking about maybe someday procrastinating over putting off doing something to live up to their lofty written ideals.

That’s just human nature.

I’ll take Killgore sweating to mow his neighbor’s lawn for her and laughing at her behind her back as an example of human kindness and honesty before I’ll ever buy the “clean in thought, word and deed” bushwah from any shiny group again in my life.