[yldstrk]

My child is on a lacrossse team that just started and is struggling. They played a school which was beating them 20 -1 and the mean girls on the winning were growling “more more”. It was revealing. They were beasts.

Besides that, it isn’t just sports kids maybe don’t care about, it’s everything. No one cares about anything except advancing themselves and sex, oh and did I mention sex?

[Alberta's Child]

I should have referenced this in my previous post. That's exactly what I'm referring to. It sounds to me like those two teams have no business competing on the same field. Looking back at the sports we played as kids, one of the things I find fascinating about it is that we'd rarely ever end up in situations where one team would consistently beat another by lopsided margins. That's because we tended to gravitate to groups of kids with similar skills and abilities.

When you think about it, it makes sense. The team that loses by a 20-1 score is likely to be demoralized, but the team that wins isn't really getting any better in the process, are they?

[EBH]

The value in playing and learning how to win or lose, isn't about the score. It is about how to compete well, about being on a team, and even how to deal with the “beasts” of this world. But in order for those lessons to be taught by life, one has to keep ‘the score.’

It bothers me as I see the article pointing out a dangerous type of precedence...one of apathy about life. It illustrates why making things 'fair' for children removes the child's ability to thrive and find their own talents. It is my opinion that this generation is the ticking time bomb of cultural decline. Fairness and apathy are not man's best friends, no matter what the socialist/progressive model would brainwash them to believe. To remove a child's desire to compete or achieve to the best of their ability, destroys them. Children brought up in such a culture will not bring their best skills and God-given gifts to the world.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“No one cares about anything except advancing themselves and sex, oh and did I mention sex?”

You’re right on both counts.

Advancing oneself via honest hard work and creativity is admirable, but advancing oneself by being unprincipled and a ‘player’ seems to be the order of the day. Personally, when I see people go to church, and then screw people over at work while rationalizing that it’s OK because “this is business” it makes my stomach turn.