Doan wrote:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, 0:- wrote:

Doan wrote:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, 0:- wrote:

Correction ***


Doan wrote:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, beccafromlalaland wrote:

Doan Wrote:
reasonable:
(rz-n-bl)
adj.

1. Capable of reasoning; rational: a reasonable person.
2. Governed by or being in accordance with reason or sound thinking: a
reasonable solution to the problem.
3. Being within the bounds of common sense: arrive home at a reasonable
hour.
4. Not excessive or extreme; fair: reasonable prices.

So I take it that it is not "reasonable" to spank you kids, according
to
you?

Doan
Very good Doan. It is Unreasonable to spank any child, for any
reason. Children are precious, Parents are supposed to love them care
for them teach them guide them into productive adulthood.

Spanking has been upheld by the courts (even the Supreme Court) as
"reasonable". It might be "unreasonable" to you but to most parents
in the U.S., it is "reasonable".
We are not a majority rules society. You can relax that argument now,
or retire it. *** Laws are NOT made by majority rule.

Hahaha! Realllly??? You must have skipped Government 101!
You must not understand what you are reading.

I just pointed out it's NOT majority rule. It's representative rule, by
vote.

Representative of what? Of a minority? ;-)

Yes. Exactly that. People who may be in the minority for some reason, or
any reason, are not only protected in our system, they have very real
power. You never have taken a PoliSci class, have you?

We are not a "democracy," as in pure democracy. More properly we have a
system called a representative democracy.

1500 people in an out of the way district in Montana get to elect a
representative that goes to congress and has ONE vote per issue, against
a congressman or women elected in a district of 5 or 6 million people,
and again, one vote per issue.

That is the essence of our system and the distribution of power to
remove the change, as Ben said below, an unarmed lamb being invited by
two wolves to dinner.

In addition if you read the constitution, and especially the BOR
carefully you see our rights RECOGNIZED (Doan't forget that word) so
that regardless we each have equal power under law.

Even children have it, but since they cannot exercise it personally
others do that for them. And when their power is usurped by the very
ones that are supposed to protect them our society, through law, does so.

That is why, Doan't, the law is coming to protect children.

And that, little child, is why a law is coming your way, as it has all
over the world, and in our school systems.

Yup! I heard it's coming in eleven days! ;-)

That's nice to hear.

Whatever time it takes it's as sure as women's suffurage, the end of
child labor, and the abolition of slavery that each came in their time.

It's worth the doing.

If you have children I hope you won't be among the first to be
disciplined by the law.

0:-





AFfromDreamLand




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"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what
to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb
contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin