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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

James, would you race a Clydesdale against a thoroughbred?  Would you hook 
up an Arab to plow your field?  Would you do an 8-pony hitch to pull the 
Budweiser wagons?

Would you pit George Bush against Bobby Fisher in a chess match?  Steven 
King against Joe Montana as quarterback?  Would you pit Michelle Obama 
against Sarah Palin in the Alaskan wilderness?

Would you tell the Clydesdale's trainer that just because Clydesdales have a 
"genetic predisposition" to rarely get out of a walk or trot that it would 
behove them to get that Clyde's arse in gear?  That Steven King simply isn't 
practicing enough?  That all women are created equal and that Michelle Obama 
is a slacker because she can't shoot and dress a moose?  That the ponies 
simply need to work harder?

I find this obsession or tunnel-vision to be most peculiar coming from an 
unschooler when the very tenents of unschooling is that every child is an 
individual and each will learn in their own individual way what they need to 
know when they need to know it and that no two children are alike.  Most 
peculiar!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> I;ve still got to wonder what difference that makes.  It has been argued 
> that
> some people are genetically more prone to be violent.  It doesn't mean 
> that
> their violence is accepted because of that.  Even if someone were 
> genetically
> predisoposed to be sedentary in their habits (which I much misdoubt), they 
> will
> suffer the same consequences as someone who chose to be that way ... and 
> they
> would benefit from reversing that habit same as anyone else would.