How does this fit in with the "fencepost" mentality  you mentioned a while back? It would seem to me that those people lacking this common (sense of) civility would stick out because of that and get smacked back into place. I can understand, to a certain extent, the idea of trying to keep the peace and civility by asking for a certain amount of compromise, i.e., closing a park after ten at night or the like but it sounds like the authorities in this case are simply capitulating instead of seeking a compromise.

It makes me think that there might be something else going on culturally here. Are those that are complaining in some way culturally different or special to be able to get a highschool of all things to silence itself.

Whenever I hear one of those aforementioned douche bags pontificate about how dangerous [...] videogames are I get a little stabby. --Wil Wheaton.
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