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Re:Scouts and guides provide ‘mental health boost for life’ by gaius on Saturday November 12, 2016 @05:24AM (#12937318)
Not really, playing sports doesn't give the "immersive" experience of spending several days at a time in the back country, sports kit doesn't have the meaning attached to it that a uniform does, etc etc. I was a cadet rather than a scout but even decades later it still shapes my thinking.
Re:Scouts and guides provide ‘mental health boost for life’ by douche on Saturday November 12, 2016 @05:42AM (#12937356)
I dunno, I dumped the Boy Scouts as soon as I started playing sports. It didn't help that there were legitimate, registered sex offenders involved in the leadership of the local troop. But really it was that it was just easier and more fun to just go out in the back country and do stuff on your own than to put up with all the red tape and bureaucracy and fiddle-frigging around that Scouts entailed.