Dies it matter if you are required to say trick or treat to get the candy?
Kids today; they think society OWES them free candy.[/quote]
QUOTATION: The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato, according to William L. Patty and Louise S. Johnson, Personality and Adjustment, p. 277 (1953).
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This fear for the future of our young people is as old as, well, Socrates. And my response to the flu/zk/etc argument is that we should reward those who contribute to society and help those who are not contributors to step up their game. Hard workers are good, regardless of where they come from. Hard workers with some creativity are even better, but there are few of those.
