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Ethics
: Dispatches from the Culture WarsZero Tolerance Absurdity
By Ed Brayton
This is where media-driven hysteria over school shootings leads to ridiculous policies without any logic to them at all: a ten year old kid in Massachusetts has been suspended from school for 5 days for bringing an empty casing from a blank fired during a Memorial Day event to school. Are we just incapable of applying a little critical thinking here?
Read the comments on this post...Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 07, 2008 (boomark / email).

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