Quote from: RE on Jun 22, 2023, 08:59 PMYou are very conventional thinker and staying in the civilization is the conventional choice, which is why your response was so predictable.

Conventional thinker? And staying in civilization? What? While you were lounging on the beaches of foreign lands or playing songs on the radio with a rich daddy supporting a NYC lifestyle while enjoying a top flight high school and college education I was learning how to time a swing of a baseball bat to brain a raccoon or fox caught in one of my traps in Appalachia, so I could sell the hide to buy some ammo to shoot a whitetail to put food on the table. And don't get me staretd on the wonders of running water indoors, it is glorious!

So my bias towards civilization comes from understanding the alternative. What might your decades of internet dabbling on the topic be worth outside of the cocoon you've been raised in? A single swing at that raccoons head, with only a hope and prayer that it works?

Quote from: REBoarding a floating egg while society seems to be sorta functioning is the unconventinaol, risky choice, the kind Dr. Gonzo would have taken, like going to live with the Hell's Angels.  A conventional thinker like yourself would never do that.

Dr. Gonzo wasn't a conventional thinker, I'll give him that. But being a battery in the Matrix isn't a gonzo choice, it is the choice of a lemming seeking guidance and comfort from other lemmings because it can't decide for itself what is best.

Quote from: REFar as the 10 y/o goes most of them would not choose to go if their parents weren't also going, even if their parents encouraged them to go.  Most are still too attached and dependent on parents at that age.

A quite possible scenario. What does a 10 year old have to do with making the choice? Nothing. You learn that one as a parent. You didn't ask what the CHILD would want to do, you asked what choice you would make for the child. The child is no more qualified to make that decision than you are discussing how to swing a baseball bat to brain a raccoon.

Quote from: REOnly very independent and self assured kids would do that, and if my kid had that kind of guts, I sure would not be the one to stand in the way.
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But that wasn't the question you asked. However, if you had asked the question "what would the 10 year old want", my bet is as you suspected, that the child would want to stay with mommy and daddy.