Haircut boy gets $24k costs

[Ocean1]

Awwwwww, seriously? You didnt just say that someone who breaks a rule that pretty much everyone agrees is stupid and pointless will end up a criminal because of that?

Of course not. They become criminals because they're not taught to obey rules.

Isn't that the definition of a criminal? A career rule breaker?

[Ocean1]

Wow.

As others have pointed out - that is a slippery slope - normally ending in Genocide.

So, remind me, what's the point of having a rule that anyone can ignore with impunity?

[Winston001]

Tell that to any of a number of oppressed masses throughout the centuries. Nuremberg sprung immediately to mind when I read that.

Ho YUS! Godwins Law manifests once again.

[mashman]

And the fact that you never achieved adulthood is glaringly obvious.

Thank fuck for that too if you're the definition of what an adult is.

[Winston001]

I'm sure that the likes of Ghandi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela were sick of the ridicule. That didn't stop them standing up for what they believed in.

Very true and the examples of Ghandi, King, and Mandela ilustrate the sheer unimportance of what we are discussing.

To compare a hair-cut with the years of privations and risks - indeed assassination, faced by those three men on behalf of millions of others, is to trivialise their work.

Lucan Battison has a First World problem. About the same level of importance as having a rule against cell-phones in classrooms.

[Winston001]

Ironically Lucan appears to be a good lad and normally one we'd all respect.

I'd guess he was encouraged by his father who had a misplaced sense of importance.

[TheDemonLord]

So, remind me, what's the point of having a rule that anyone can ignore with impunity?

Rules are not created solely for the sake of themselves - yes rules need to be enforced, but rules also need to be debated, challenged and argued to ensure that they are just. We would still be selling Slaves if everyone where to take your attitude - that the Rule is sacrosanct.

Any rule is created by Humans, Humans are inherently Fallible, therefore any rules we create are inherently fallible - it is correct that when we perceive a rule to be unjust, unfair, incorrect or being enforced incorrectly that we should challenge it.

[Ocean1]

Rules are not created solely for the sake of themselves - yes rules need to be enforced, but rules also need to be debated, challenged and argued to ensure that they are just.

No indeed. In fact the majority of rules are completely unnecessary for the majority of people. But in spite of your assertion rules serve a function beyond that of defining acceptable behaviour. They imply discipline in putting others wishes before your own.

And in spite of millennia of adolescents insisting otherwise self discipline often has to be procured by the sort of discipline imposed by those others.

No problem with debating, arguing and challenging rules.

No problem with changing them.

In the meantime obey the ones you've got, they were debated, argued and challenged to become rules in the first place. There's little more odious than a jumped up young git crying about how unfair the rules are.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Sheesh that's an interesting way to show your interest in a job...Any particular PM you want shooting? What? you didn't mean that sort of PM?

I'm up for pics of boobs by PM, who isn't?

[jonbuoy]

Long as he was well behaved who cares how long his hair is. Not really important in the grand scheme of real life. This is the general problem with teachers - most have never been in the real world. Most have spent their entire lives in the education system.

[oldrider]

Long as he was well behaved who cares how long his hair is. Not really important in the grand scheme of real life. This is the general problem with teachers - most have never been in the real world. Most have spent their entire lives in the education system.

Dog owners look like their dogs -- teachers behave like children -- psychiatrists behave like loonies --- it's all to do with the environment they live in!

Monkey see -- monkey do!

[HenryDorsetCase]

I have often heard teachers referred to as "the third sex". It should be funny but is true.

[Winston001]

Kids today follow few rules and I think society is too PC, allowing them in general to get away with too much. I love rebellion in the right circumstance, this haircut case was not it.

In a nutshell. There are few rules and lots of "rights".

Leaving that aside, Luc attends a Catholic secondary school which is allowed to make tighter rules than a state school. If he doesn't like one particular rule he is entitled to move to the state school a few hundred yards down the road. Simple solution, no breach of his rights, everyone's dignity upheld.

Given that this choice existed, the court case is an empty victory.

[jonbuoy]

In a nutshell. There are few rules and lots of "rights".

Leaving that aside, Luc attends a Catholic secondary school which is allowed to make tighter rules than a state school. If he doesn't like one particular rule he is entitled to move to the state school a few hundred yards down the road. Simple solution, no breach of his rights, everyone's dignity upheld.

Given that this choice existed, the court case is an empty victory.

Is Jesus the only one allowed long hair in a Catholic school??

[avgas]

Is Jesus the only one allowed long hair in a Catholic school??

Which scripture said he had long hair? If its anything post MKJ there is a very strong chance it is not only wrong......it's lies.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/scie...ensics/1282186

and I am not even Christian......I am just not stupid enough to believe that the English were that great at translation.
I mean look how fucked up the Treaty was between translations.