Yes it is, it is no different than child exploitation for sexual purposes, since the family wanted the money the child would earn. This act is far different that someone who has a gifted talent. It doesn't take talent to sail a boat, only know-how, anyone can do it and with GPS anyone can navigate, since the computer is going to tell them when and where to turn. No big deal. A ten year old could probably do it if you brain wasted him enough.
you gotta be the stupidist person walkin.
literally the very stupidist......
..no talent to sail ?????????????????
.. good God
Are you effing serious? Child rape is a CRIME. Sailing a boat is NOT a CRIME. And if it does not take talent to sail a boat, many more teens would be making teh same attempt.
You are completely wrong about “No Talent” required for boating. Fine if you are in a lake, in the bay or within land sight but, getting beyond the horizon?
No way you are going to that with with fancy gadgets and book smart.
It takes a level of skill and intuitiveness you just can’t imagine.
besides those fancy gizmos like radios and GPS mess up all the time and if you can’t read a compass, map, stars and use a sextant, you will most likely be screwed quickly and dead in the water, followed shortly by dead.
Arguably, Farragut didn't have a ship as seaworthy as what Abby had. He'd have found himself with his hands quite full, thank you very much, had he encountered the conditions that overtaxed the mast on her vessel. Farragut didn't have sattelite communications or GPS. Was he an idiot to sail halfway 'round the globe, and then to engage in live fire exchanges with ruthless men who'd as readily slit his throat as speak to him??
Or maybe you draw a distinction only in that Farragut's proud father didn't go and get a nice book deal inked while the young Admiral-to-be was off to sea??
And, does it occur to anyone else that every posted expression of upset over this news story inherently implies a demand for exactly the kind of government proscription of personal choices that is THE central subject of acute, and incessant condemnation in, and in fact the entire raison d'être for, this forum??
Posters are always around here bitching, moaning, and howling about government imposing itself in thier lives in ways that limit PERSONAL CHOICES, then, when someone makes a PERSONAL CHOICE that government hasn't yet found a way to eliminate, here they are — in a flagrant display of hypocrisy — bitching, moaning, and howling about that.
Well, wth "conservatism" like that, who needs liberalism?
DO you want; government intrusion, or do you not?!
You "conservatives" had better make up your stinking minds, 'cuz only Liberals and bisexuals get it both ways!