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"what's preventing your Parliment from declaring, say, Meg Thatcher to be dictator?"
Aside from the fact that our whole social, economic, and cheese making system isn't set up to support a dictator, and the fact that if it happened, everyone would simply move?
It's also hard to take someone's arguments seriously when they know so little about a country that they think that one of it's longest serving (and most famous and evil) leaders is called "Meg".
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quote:It's still legal for a three-year-old to own a gun. This is bad.
Certainly not that you've done any research on age restrictions on gun ownership, but I'd bet that's a position the NRA supports...lest we go down that slippery slope of limiting gun ownership.
Other than that the assertion is silly and in no way defends your other silly positions I called you on.
We again have the old diversion tactic. We've grown to expect no less.
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How much would you like to bet? I could use some spending cash.
Such blathering of spurious attacks is beneath you.
(I can say, after going to see 'Harry Potter' this weekend, that whether or not the government or parents have any right to 'control' children, they do very lousy jobs of doing it. Ratty munchkins kicked my seat for 2 1/2 hours straight!)
Hey, if the govt. regulates kid behaviours, can I get a law passed that makes taking toddlers and infants to movie theatres, and then refusing to leave when the child becomes loud and/or unmanageable, a felony? Hm? That would be GREAT!
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Sheesh. For someone who works with children, you sure have a general lack of tolerance of immature behaviour.
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I guess I'd better put sarcasm marks around my sarcastic remarks so Fo2 can get it.
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1. They will generally be GONE in half an hour. 2. They aren't MINE, and therefore aren't my responsibility. I am not a babysitter.
And it's not the children's behaviour I'm really complaining about here... it's the parents'.
I mean, if I'd behaved the way these kids behaved, (and I couldn't have, because my parents kept me out of movie theatres until I was 5 and had learned to keep still), moments later you could have fried an egg on my butt from the spanking I got.
It's DISCIPLINE, people!!!
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If you don't want kids to be there, go to a late night showing. Or during school time. Or wait a week or so for the crowds to have died down.
I know it's not condonable, but going to see a kids film at a time when the cinema will be swarming with kids and then complaining that they acted like children is a bit, well, daft.
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My, my, you all have been busy since I've been gone. Greetings from Alabama to everyone. had this tread started before August I could have chimed in before it got as big as it did, but since some of you seem pretty interested in outside sources to supplement the topic, I have a few you all might be interested in.
The Problems of Jurisprudence by Richard Posner Overcoming Law by Richard Posner An Affair of State by Richard Posner The People's Welfare (published by UNC Press) The Guardian of Every Other Right by Garratt Epps The Problematics of Moral & Legal Theory by Richard Posner Responding to Imperfection edited by Sanford Levinson
Some of these are real monsters to read, but a lot of what I've read in these posts would be answered by some the works of the above theoritician-practitioners. Sorry I can't write more (there IS a lot I would love to say) but I have to start studying for law school exams. Hope to be back during Christmas Break. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
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I'm not complaining that the kids acted like kids. Really, I expect that.
But I also expect that the parents will make them stop when it reaches the point that they become an irritant to other people. That's one of the prime responsibilities to being a parent... discipline. It doesn't mean whacking them... just teaching them the tifference between 'run-around-time' and 'sit-down-and-hush-time.'
And don't tell me it's impossible for kids that young to be quiet. I know that's a lie, because _I_ did it.
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