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Jammer, Should you go to College without entrance exams? Should you become a SEAL without completing the training for SEAL TEAM members? Should you be allowed to perform brain surgery on people without having successfully completed the rigors of medical school? Should you be allowed in the boxing ring with Mike Tyson, to have a shot at getting your ear bitten off, or much worse, without first having proved you belong in a championship bout? :) If you haven't heard me clearly saying everyone has the right---but they need to go through the appropriate training and pass the prerequisites first, then you must have already found your way in to the ring with Tyson. What's it like without an ear??? <grin> Regards, Dan -----Original Message----- From: Jammer Six <jammer@oz*.ne*> To: techdiver <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Date: Friday, February 27, 1998 5:34 PM Subject: Re: Tragic technicaldiving >>My idea will NOT keep a diver who is medically fit from diving. It will make >>sure they have trained enough to pass the fitness portion. And training >>standards will become tighter, meaning the tech divers will actually have to >>pass skill tests, and can not just be given a card because they paid the >>money ---i.e., they will not get passed through until they have really >>learned the material, and have become adept at using it. > >Volker, your ideas are slippery slopes, as far as most Americans are >concerned. > >While it may not be a good idea, or advisable for your grandmother to >dive, I think most of us agree that it's UP TO HER whether or not she >dives, or how she kills herself. > >You want to be careful starting down hills that look slippery, or sure as >hell, someone is going to stop anyone from diving that uses more than one >question mark on the internet. We have a long history of resisting the >FIRST lost freedom, not the last straw. > >Personally, I think it would be far better for diving to be illegal, as >long as it applied evenly to all, than for it to be legal for some, but >not for others. > >Your grandmother can skydive, ski, snowboard (if she smokes pot, >apparently), hike, rock climb, and execute technical dives, with my >blessing. The only thing that stops her is her choice. Those of you who >think there is something more important than that choice sound naive and >childish to those of us who have witnessed the absence of that choice. >That choice is worth dying for, and many, many have done exactly that. >Your "logic" pales in comparison to their sacrifice. > >Since you don't appreciate this choice thing, you have a conflicting >opinion. You are entitled to hold this opinion, again, courtesy of >American Veterans. > >You're welcome. > >Your grandmother can choose for herself, regardless of your opinion of >her ability to do so. > >I'm sure she appreciates that, even with the grandson that she has. > >She's welcome, too. > >------------ >"C'mon, you sons of bitches, you >want to live forever?" > -First Sergeant Dan Daly, 1918 >------------ > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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