From: KKoloff@aol.com
Date: Mon Aug 05 2002 - 16:05:09 CDT
In a message dated 8/5/2002 3:59:04 PM Central Standard Time,
pilgrim@clover.net writes:
> The point here is that the scout tried to do the right thing. We do not
> know why he was overweight...he might have been a weightlifter or football
> lineman. Was he over by 1, 5 or 10lbs. Heaven forbid that we should ever
> give the scout the benefit of the doubt, let's judge and condemn him right
> now! We need to remember that it is a game and not a religion.
>
We need to remember niether is it a game or religion it is experience
that should in this case dictate policy.
Scouts that trek philmont have a dicta they have to follow, be it
wieght, physical endurance or whatever, not about religion, or anything else,
but it is about responsibility not only to ones self but his crew.
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