text: To recap, to get the best opinion on something, one must ask multiple people, as a single person may be wrong. if you are given multiple possible solutions, then you can find the best one and go with it. The author implores you, next time you are having a tough time making a decision, to ask multiple people, to do research on the solutions given, and to not die in a cabin in the dead of winter.An extracurricular activity by nature is designed to be optional, something that students can join to support their hobby. Sports are a popular example, because if you are enrolled in the school, you don't have to spend extra money to join a sports team. This is great news for the people interested in all the sports their school has to offer. But not everyone wants to join the sports team. Even if you take into account all the other extracurricular activities at school, there will still be people who aren't interested in any of them, and it would be impossible to cover all categories and hobbies of every student at school to make an activity for each of them. This is why I believe the ability to opt out of an extracurricular activity is a fundamental part of the activity itself, hence the "extra" in the name, and I'm going to tell you why forcing students to participate in one is a very bad idea.