[Ansteorra] Cookies and merit badges
Chris Zakes
dontivar at gmail.com
Mon May 22 04:44:35 PDT 2006
At 10:22 PM 5/21/2006, you wrote:
>Due to the long drive home this afternoon, Gilyan and I landed upon the
>subject of "cookies and merit badges" and wondered at the negative
>connotation associated with such things. So we're wondering:
>
>What's wrong with merit badges? What about the system is offensive and/or
>wrong?
>
>Jean Paul
If someone is doing something *solely* to get the award--rather than for
any inherent love of the activity--that's a problem. I've seen folks who
worked hard to get award X, then once they have it, totally neglect that
field in pursuit of award Y, then drop that field in favor of award Z, etc.
Once they've maxed out, they drop the SCA completely in favor of something
else, like bicycle racing or poker.
In the long run, these people aren't much use to the SCA--they don't teach
the skills they've learned, all their work has been focused on themselves,
rather than the Society as a whole. The best that can be said of them is
that they make good bad examples.
-Tivar Moondragon
Oatmeal chocolate chip
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