The town decided it had no choice, despite a citizens' petition urging that the slide remain. Modern rights seem limitless. For the price of a lawyer, anyone can transform his sense of entitlement into a legal claim. This has changed the way we live, infecting our choices with legal fear. Our playgrounds are being stripped of seesaws.
Paranoid doctors order unnecessary tests.
Oologah's slide is a national metaphor. The new conventional wisdom is that America is a diverse country, and that our values have changed. Not many years ago, we were comfortable with these decisions. Today, we are fractured over the risks of seesaws. America stands for individual rights.