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RE: On the Boy Scout gender inclusion debate
Search and Rescue clubs would make sense here where I live. Land navigation, shelter construction, wilderness survival, extra bodies to help build sandbag berms during spring floods, etc. are useful skills for the individual and the community alike. I'm just not sure the scouts are the best way to provide it. I know my Young Marines background was much less than ideal, and far too propagandistic and authoritarian.
In a way all of them seem just indoctrination. The concept and idea is generally good, but then humans get in the mix and seriously F**K it all up.
Competition and consumer choice would go a long way toward keeping everyone honest through more transparency.