"Sorry folks - I'd just say NO - let them do it the hard way"
You would do it, and I would do it, and many here would do it, but it is exceedingly unlikely that a 16-yr-old kid (esp a good one) is going to have the fortitude to do that. He's been trained all his life to do as he's told.
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