Have you ever heard of a rule in your school that no weapons, even toy ones, are allowed on campus? Well, surprisingly, there’s a “water-pistol ambush” game in a private high school called St. Ann’s in Brooklyn, New York. It’s a school tradition where a senior judge (who doesn’t participate in the game) assigns each team a student to attack with a water pistol. The last person who has not been killed wins the game and a cash prize. I think that the water pistol games should not be organized as a school event because it is too mature and not appropriate, has nothing to do with school, and is not respectful of students’ privacy.
First of all, shooting classmates, even with water, is too mature of a game to be played in a school environment. This …show more content…
One example of this is hacking into a student’s caller I.D. “The idea was to use a cell phone to call the Cohens’ landline, posing as Cohen’s teammate Dominic, using Dominic’s caller I.D. The call had been engineered from a remote computer by a squad member with prodigious hacking skills.” Hacking into somebody’s caller I.D. to attempt to trick a target by impersonation, although creative, is not a just way to obtain information to achieve your goals. The school also does not care if classmates stalk their targets home and loiter outside their houses. “At 10:30 P.M. on a Wednesday, three of the four seniors, armed with Walgreens-issue water pistols, staked out Cohen’s house in a blue Toyota minivan.” Both of these actions in the real world would be considered suspicious and disrespectful of one’s privacy, and you could possibly need to pay fines for this, so schools should not allow a game be an exception, as players may be led to think that stalking someone is acceptable. Even though some might argue that learning how to hack can be useful and is a smart move, if you did so in real life, the police would not care that the hacker was smart, they would see it as suspicious activity anyways and you could be
First of all, shooting classmates, even with water, is too mature of a game to be played in a school environment. This …show more content…
One example of this is hacking into a student’s caller I.D. “The idea was to use a cell phone to call the Cohens’ landline, posing as Cohen’s teammate Dominic, using Dominic’s caller I.D. The call had been engineered from a remote computer by a squad member with prodigious hacking skills.” Hacking into somebody’s caller I.D. to attempt to trick a target by impersonation, although creative, is not a just way to obtain information to achieve your goals. The school also does not care if classmates stalk their targets home and loiter outside their houses. “At 10:30 P.M. on a Wednesday, three of the four seniors, armed with Walgreens-issue water pistols, staked out Cohen’s house in a blue Toyota minivan.” Both of these actions in the real world would be considered suspicious and disrespectful of one’s privacy, and you could possibly need to pay fines for this, so schools should not allow a game be an exception, as players may be led to think that stalking someone is acceptable. Even though some might argue that learning how to hack can be useful and is a smart move, if you did so in real life, the police would not care that the hacker was smart, they would see it as suspicious activity anyways and you could be