A Question for the Dinner Table

Should we (individual citizens) be allowed to fail?

Go ahead. Talk amongst yourselves. I'm not going to answer it in this post anyway. It's late and I need to get some sleep. But the Britney post and the nightmare of the presidential debates keep rattling around in my cage.

Here are a few amendments to that question: Does our government currently allow us to fail? Did they originally allow us to fail? Should they or should they not allow us to fail?

I'll get back to this at another date. I'm off to bed.