Yes, I do think they need to learn this, it is part of the realities of the wild. A kid in California might be alive if he had learned just how powerful a tiger can be.
Don't get me wrong here, I do not support the Chinese in any form or fashion, but there is a whole host of things we can bash them on and this really isn't one of them.
I agree, at worst this is just crude.
However, down the road, our kids are going to be at the business negotiating table the those kids.
Who is going to be able to drive the hardest bargain? The kids raise by a bunch of pansy’s, or the kids who are raised understanding real life?
I was only trying to make some reasonable discernments between conscious decisions that humans have the power to make and the order in nature which is under no conscious control. Man should certainly be aware of the nature of the wild and rationally put it in its own context. But when man makes choices he shouldn't use the nature of the wild as an excuse for his actions. But I don't mean to imply that man is entirely free of nature and able to act in some completely pure manner. We have to eat, build shelters and defend our families. At our very best we can't do those things without taking life and causing others to suffer both man and beast. But we don't have to make a Roman Circus out of it to live and enjoy life. 4H is nothing like that I think you would agree.
Maybe you and the grandkids can double team that generation in the middle. ; )