[Niuhuru]

“I guess China is willing to put up with those zany quirks that high IQs bring to the table.”

The Chinese are nothing of not practical. Their views seems to be that as long as the person isn’t breaking the law or causing trouble, then there’s no problem. In America we have all these social rules that aren’t based on being natural, but based on being able to market yourself.

I mean, in the Salem witchcraft trials the majority executed were the ones who were eccentrics. We drug our eccentrics of Ritalin while socially adept psychopaths terrorize everyone around them.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

I beg to differ. America is one of the most tolerant of all nations on earth. We have relaxed our social standards to the point of having none. The fact that a parent allows their child to receive drugs to treat the teacher's inability to maintain discipline and engage their students, is the parent's problem. Many, in fact, a majority of problems with children is that parents will tolerate behavior that would have earned me a very sore behind and when my mother really got wound up (usually because I was rather precocious) a concussion. I don't recommend the nuclear option my mother preferred, but I do recommend getting the ground rules straight and maintaining order. (Gee, ya’ think that's why my son is a Marine...now that I see my philosophy in writing, I'll have to stop asking myself how THAT happened.)