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> Jammer,
>Should you go to College without entrance exams?
Actually, I did exactly that.
>Should you become a SEAL without completing the training for SEAL TEAM
>members?
Funny, I thought we were talking about technical diving. Don't confuse
that with the Navy. They're not even close to the same thing. Being in
the SEALs is actually difficult, it's almost as tough as being in the
Military.
>Should you be allowed to perform brain surgery on people without having
>successfully completed the rigors of medical school?
Separate subject. We're talking about who should be allowed to ATTEMPT
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? :)
Absolutely. Take your best shot.
Haven't watched much boxing, have you? They let LOTS of unqualified
steroid cases get eaten alive by champions, every year.
(Although tyson is no champion, he's a short-eyes.)
>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>
It's the prerequiesites and training nonsense I'm arguing.
Only private groups, like WKPP, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Nation of Islam
can set arbitrary preqs like you're suggesting.
Fortunately, those preqs only apply to entry to those groups, and have
nothing to do with the rest of us.
What I'm telling you, with or without your understanding, comprehension,
or permission, is that the prerequisites and training that you have been
babbling about for multiple mixed gas, 200 foot, decompression diving
will never be allowed to become law in the U.S., and therefore will never
have any impact on the vast majority of the diving public.
We're going to loose a few. Darwin never blinks, and if you want to slap
him, by doing a dive that you're not really qualified for, have at it.
With my blessing.
I have several suggestions about how you could learn to live with this,
and actually become comfortable enough with it to sleep at night, but I'm
sure that you will arrive at suitable conclusions on your own.
As I noted in another post, on another subject, the sky is not really
falling, Mr. Little.
Don't be afraid.
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"C'mon, you sons of bitches, you
want to live forever?"
-First Sergeant Dan Daly, 1918
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