Yeah, what Finne said. Thanks for the straw man, though.
FMF
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Finne Boonen <hennar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 19:09, Gregory Kohs
<thekohser(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Geni, you (and others) seem to place a lot of
stock in "parent
responsibility":
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-November/056095.html
Work with me for a moment here... if a parent takes her 9-year-old boy to
the toy boutique, and the boy asks to stay outside on the sidewalk with
the
pantomime clown the store has hired to promote
their business, and the
mom
says "okay", goes inside, then the boy
wanders down the sidewalk a bit to
look at the window display of toy trains, but is then abducted by a
stranger, raped, mutilated, and dumped in the woods, that is the
responsibility of the parent? The consequences are entirely her fault
for
leaving the kid alone with the clown? Nobody
else holds any
responsibility
whatsoever in that event?
Are you saying that it's more important that the mime stay in character
and
not use either his own common sense or courtesy,
or perhaps follow
instructions or guidelines that have been conferred on him by either the
store or his entertainment company employer to say, "Please don't leave
your
child unattended with me, ma'am. Liability,
you know?"
A mime in this situation is there to attract children Wikipedia isn't.
A better comparison would be the Disney website.
henna
--
"Maybe you knew early on that your track went from point A to B, but
unlike you I wasn't given a map at birth!" Alyssa, "Chasing Amy"
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