Our Platform for Outlining Colorado’s Future

The Boy Scouts should improve their requirements to reach their first advancement category. (Score: 1 + 2 + 7 + 3 = 13) Reasons to agree : 2 1.1 The Boy Scouts should not require people to be "properly dressed" in a Boy Scout Uniform in order to advance to their first rank of "tenderfoot". (Score: 6+3-1-1 = 7) Reasons to agree : 6 You have to go through a monopoly to purchase a Boy Scout Uniform. Monopolies are bad. The uniforms are a racket. Even if uniforms were important, they should be a "nice to have" not a requirement. The belief that what you wear is important is unnecessary. As long as clothing is clean and shows respect for yourself and your troop, it shouldn't matter. There is no strong reason to require uniforms. (Score: +3-1 = 2) Reasons to agree : +3 The Boy Scouts of America are judged on outward appearances rather than their values. The organization didn't adapt marketing strategies to appeal to modern youth. Not everyone understands...

Reasons to agree : +5 The internet has more room than the refrigerator Grandparents can't see your refrigerator, if they live thousands of miles away. You can usually assume other people will want to be treated the way you want to be treated. I wish my parents had access to scanners and the internet when I was little. Kids will want to see their work when they are older. If you house burns down, has water damage, or you loose things, or throw them away, the internet can back them up. Kids will need to get used to their efforts being evaluated by others including their teachers, their boss, and the public. Reasons to agree : -2 Kids might think you are making fun of them, by posting their early work. You don't have the right to publish things, unless they give you permission.  Belief Score : +5 -3 = +2 Images that agree : Soft: Echolocation, a piano, and a bat in a cave Load: An elephant, a lion, and and avalanche Self Portrait Gealaejea James Laub...

Reasons to agree : +7 Young kids will never catch geese. Geese can bight back. They have sharp teeth.  Geese are overpopulated. For instance here in Chicago they put chemicals on eggs to prevent them from hatching, because their are too many, and they poop everywhere and create environmental problems. The lack of predators have allowed geese to overpopulate.  If you eat meat you are guilty of more violence against animals than chasing geese.  Geese may get chased by wild animals. They are violent against each other. They rape ducks (google it, it is a fact). You can't apply people ethics to animals. Animals chase each other. Cats chase mice and play with them. If you don't want animals tormented you will have to kill all cats.  Its cool to watch birds fly. Letting kids chase birds until they fly gives kids an awe, and an experience, and an appreciation for animals. It is possible to love animals, and hunt them, as native Americans taught us. Chasing...

Background, definitions, and assumptions For a place to be considered good, it must be better than average.  Chicago land is, of course, Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. Reasons to agree : +10 Chicago has lots of stuff to do, that don't cost too much money .  Trips to the zoo are good for kids  (+1). Chicago has good zoos.  Chicago has good mass transportation  (+2).  Chicago has good architecture  (+0). Its cool to live near good architecture.  You can leave near Chicago, and still have a back yard.  Despite criticism of suburban sprawl kids have fun in their back yards  (+0). Bolingbrook, a typical suburb of Chicago, has pretty good parks . Kids like fireworks , and there are often good fire works shows around Chicago. For instance Navy Pier has free fireworks during the summer, their are good firework shows across the suburbs on the 4rth of July, and the Chicago Air Water show has good fireworks. Numbers are what ma...