I appreciate this level-headed take from someone knowledgeable on the topic. It's very easy to get riled up over the issue in Gaza, and it's important to discern where certain actions are sanctioned or not.
That said, I suspect there were better ways to deescalate the issue on Girl Scouts' end. Threatening litigation over a contentious humanitarian issue is begging for bad publicity. But, I'm not privy to the exchanges that brought it to that level.
IMO, it’s more a consequence of a black & white morality. Nuance isn’t even a blip on the radar. I guarantee they aren’t considering the ramifications, and wouldn’t understand them if explained.
Good point. I admittedly missed that part when I skimmed the article.
I found the Ukraine page on Girl Scouts’s website… it certainly paints a damning picture on Girl Scouts end.
I have to admit, my gut reaction was to ponder if this rule would be enforced if it was to raise money for Israeli children instead… but I know diddly squat about Girl Scouts and did about 5 minutes of research.
What I learned was that money raised by Girl Scouts is intended to be spent on local community projects. So helping local kids would be cool, but not foreign. Girl Scouts doesn’t forbid one from aiding foreign needy, but you can’t do that under the Girl Scout banner/as a Girl Scout project.
So, at the moment, I’m inclined to side with Girl Scouts on this issue. But, again, I don’t know squat about how Girl Scouts is run in practice, and if this project is being singled out or not.
I remember playing this on the Wii, it felt like, going in, it was a spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie with Mario Sunshine mechanics, and a threat to the existence of Kingdom Hearts.
Then I played the game, and my impressions sank.
The morality system was, IMO, poorly balanced. Trying to do good is excessively tedious, and it’s easy to accidentally do evil (Oswald’s kids, anyone?) Then you decide you’re not having fun finding all of Mecha-Goof’s parts, and decide to come back to that collectathon later, only to find that you’re locked out of that and have to pay a ransom instead.
I really hope this version is more than just a new coat of paint.
What a world we live in, where “most affordable” and $70,000 dollars can be used in the same sentence.
It still burns that Prodigy was barely included in the tribute to Trek animation.
I got the book too! Did you have any luck de-dacting the Rubber Ducky Room pages?
Article mentions nothing with regards to holding corporations accountable nor any plan or threat of action on the president’s part.
The very last thing you need is for Trump to become a martyr.
Teddy Roosevelt?
But why not just reverse the polarity of the primary power coupling?