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Old Tue Aug 25, 2009, 04:11pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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I would be willing to bet a million fake internet dollars that more people will be excluded from officiating either by choice or error who are great officials who are zero danger to anyone's kids than actual threats will be found and eliminated.
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If some self select exclusion, that's their problem. They probably wear tinfoil hats too.

I'd bet that the errors are FAR fewer than the number of people it properly excludes....and that the errors are generally corrected very easily.

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In fact, I would bet the difference is an order of magnitude, maybe even 2 orders of magnitude.

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I would too...but in the opposite direction of what I'm guessing you're assuming.
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And this is an injustice to those officials, it is in fact, a slight committed against them by society - our privacy tossed aside to assuage someones emotional hysteria.
Your fears of Big Brother are not justified.
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