Peregrinator

No it isn't. Socialism is when the State, or the workers themselves, own the means of production. For example, in Great Britain medicine is socialized as health care workers work for the national healthcare service. Even Canada does not have socialized medicine per se since most medical care is delivered by private services.

But I haven't advocated socialism, any more than Friedman or Hayek did. References to China (which really is an authoritarian regime, and in some ways more capitalist than the United States) and other countries are just straw men.

Well I am not a free-market capitalist. I keep forgetting that if one disagree's with the laws of the country in which he lives, he should leave and go elsewhere!

Actually it's your employer's duty to make sure that you are paid a just wage; if they can't or won't then the duty falls to the government.

Of course not, negative income tax is completely separate from minimum wage. It's the government's duty to assure a basic income.

The Negative Income Tax (very much like a basic income) was developed by Milton Friedman.

That's what it stands for now since the progression was changed.

That's not the case. Indonesia has the largest scouting and guiding association in the world and its boys' and girls' programs are separate.

What's really weird is that the UK Scouting Association does not admit republicans (that is, those who won't promise to do their duty to the Queen).

Actually, no, I wasn't thinking of Hohfeld at all (in fact I had not heard of the man until yesterday when I looked him up after reading this). I was thinking, rather, that when a duty is imposed upon someone, then that someone has a concomitant right to fulfill that duty. For example, I have a duty to care for my children, therefore I have a right to do the things necessary for their care. And the same is true of societies as well as individuals. We can debate whether X is a duty of State (e.g., the duty to protect its citizens) but what can't be debated is that the State has the right to do those things necessary to fulfill its duties.

Could you elaborate on the distinction between the two as it pertains to State governments? But succinctly: State governments as well as municipal governments have duties; therefore they have rights. For example, a State has the duty to protect its citizens; therefore it has the right to do so as well.

I believe so, as well as the one followed by WOSM.

Yes, but the First Amendment has generally been held against State and municipal governments since the 14th Amendment.

The sort of thing that happens once one accepts the principle that the "God" in "duty to God" is up to the individual to define.

The First Amendment is a limitation on government restriction; it doesn't apply to private associations like the BSA (insofar as the BSA is "private" since it is favored in federal law).

The 6.3 million number from 1970 includes 1.6 million adult volunteers, so the true comparison would be between the 4.7 million youth members of 1970 and the 2.1 million (including Venturers) of 2015. http://www.allcountries.org/uscensus/443_boy_scouts_and_girl_scouts_membership.html

No, a scout doesn't accept a reward for doing a good turn. He can definitely accept charity or payment for a job well done (raking a yard, mowing a lawn, shoveling snow). There might be a fine line between the two, but I tend to think of a good turn as something that a scout volunteers to do (maybe without being asked) without expectation of payment. For example, when my son serves a funeral Mass, sometimes the funeral director offers money to the altar servers (I don't know how this started, but it's happened more than once, so I guess it's a common practice); my son always refuses because he views it as a good turn (and so do I).

Actually the BSA has never, except perhaps early on and unofficially, run B-P's Wolf Cub program. For example, BSA Cub Scouts have always been segregated by age (initially - Wolf, Bear, Lion - hence WeBeLoS).

Some countries (e.g. Canada) have not been successful since imposing co-education on units.

Just toss enough money/incentives in and maybe it can be Seriously, it's a heck of a lot easier to get 7-8 people to come to a consensus than hundreds of thousands.

You could just limit them to the traditional patrol names and colors: http://fr.scoutwiki.org/Code_des_couleurs_de_patrouille

Thus far the only such reaction I've seen is yours.

That's not Amnesty International's only political position, in fact after years of not taking a position on abortion (I'm sure the Catholic Church's opposition to abortion is not news), it changed its position in 2007. In addition, in 2014 AI started making moves toward supporting the decriminalization of prostitution. So there are two things that Amnesty International supports but to which the Catholic Church would be opposed. Hope this helps.

"Mean" generally refers to what most people call "average" (it is definitely not the "median"). In this case the mean or average would be 16.99 and the median would be 17.

It wasn't necessarily dishonest; it might have been ignorance. But someone either knew that the rules were being flouted or should have known that they were being flouted. The former might be worse than the latter, but neither speaks highly of him or her.