chembard

I believe most of your replies fit in the order of a line being drawn in order to segregate aggressive combative activities(un scoutly) to non agressive (scoutly). I find this drawing of lines between what should be defined as good or ungood for the individual left up to that of the individual and parents. To play the devils advocate, we should disallow board games such as chess and risk which demonstrate combative tactical situations. Dodgeball of course should be out of the question. Order of the arrow should be restricted in their dance re enactments as to not provide any combative feelings

This last weekend I was playing paintball as every weekend before and some boyscouts were there on a birthday party. They mentioned that paintball was not allowed in scouts and that it had to be an outside activity. I am an ex eagle scout ex military and thought that it seemed another wonderful example of how politically incorrect society turns organizations into the puppets of lawyers. I went outside after getting aired up and some 14-15 year olds were shooting sling shots with paintballs in them at eachother with no masks. After a butt chewing and explaining how short their visits could be,