MM> zero tolerance  has evolved into an "automatic "rote" answer that has 
the 
 MM> effect of mandating punishment for infractions under that umbrella for 
 MM> all those "caught under it, regardless of merits of any particular case 
 MM> or a reasoned, consistently applied common sense solution to any 
roblem.
 MM> examples abound locally, and the kids growing up topday in the non paper 
 MM> age will be labelled and have a tail on them forever. Not many of todays 
 MM> adults realize ALL the implications of the xero tolerance issue and 
 MM> ramifications of same .
   As long as so-called adults continue to make kids without regard to the 
ability to feed and care for them, and then get surprised when the little 
bastards turn out mean, we'll have this problem - because those will be the 
adults wanting zero tolerance.
   Zero tolerance is a great fallacy - it works only if evenly applied, and 
then only after everything else has failed - and I'm not so sure it works 
even 
then, because I'm not REAL sure what it is supposed to accomplish.
   Simplistic solutions that don't work abound.  Go to the doctor with a 
bellyache, and he removes your appendix. What does he do the next time - 
remove it again?  I don't think so - but that's the logic of some of this.
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