17th June 2004, 6:25 PM
I put up with a lot of stupid things in school that were said all the time myself. I mean, consider the pep rally. If you ask me, that's the biggest waste of time they ever forced me to go to, but it's not like I was FORCED to cheer. Sure, they guilted me about it, saying "what, you don't have any SCHOOL SPIRIT and PRIDE?!", but they didn't make me do anything except be there. No one ever said you had the right not to hear other people say things, ever.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)