A number of years ago, there was a high-brow debate TV series on Channel 4 in the UK entitled "The Ultimate Question" (I think). They would invite a panel of 'experts' to have a debate on the question of the day and the audience were invited to participate. As an aside, the show where they considered the question "Are religion and science compatible?" they invited Richard Dawkins and the Bishop of York (I think). By the end of it, the Bishop was just ranting after having been made to look like a complete halfwit. But I digress.
Another show considered the question "Is it ever right for the strong to control the weak?". Amongst the invited experts was a Professor of Sociology from Newcastle University; a typical rabid left-winger with added chips on his shoulder no doubt stemming from the fact he was about a metre tall; not an exaggeration.
One audience member raised the issue of parents using physical force to correct a child's behaviour. The rabid dwarf was absolute vehement in his position that under no circumstances should a parent ever lay a finger on their children for any purposes and to do so should be treated as assault. After ascertaining that the rabid dwarf had no children, another audience member posed a hypothetical question. Holding up his wallet with a picture of his toddler-age daughter, he asked "If my daughter reaches up to grab something hot or dangerous, should I not therefore be allowed to give her a light smack on the bum to indicate she shouldn't do it again?".
Predicatably, the answer was no. Instead, the Professor suggested, he should explain the dangers inherent in the child's actions and impress upon them that repeating such actions could have unwanted results. The audience member then explained that although his daughter could understand the concept of hurting, trying to impress on her the dangers of putting her hands in a gas fire would be virtually impossible, and any pain that he caused her by a smack on the bum would be trivial compared to the pain and suffering caused by her hands coming into contact with white-hot flames.
Still, the Professor argued to punish the daughter was immoral. The audience member tried explaining to him that it wasn't a punishment. It was using a small transitory amount of pain to illustrate such an action was bad, and to prevent a much worse situation appearing in the future, especially when the child was of an age where you couldn't simply reason with them. But, like most
bigoted pseudo-communist ideologists, he was completely unwilling to listen to any argument that didn't exactly fit his personal idea of a reg flag utopia.
Bradford is cut from the same cloth as the rabid dwarf. Politically, she's slightly to the left of Lenin but nowhere near as intelligent. And she's uglier... I don't have children yet I object to this bill and the aims espoused within it. Bradford has essentially criminalised a parent applying any form of correction to a child. Picking them up to put them in their room, grabbing their shoulder as they run out into the road, smacking their hand when they go to touch something hot or sharp ... anything. Rather like the current debacle that is the Electoral Finance Bill, the law no longer defines what is acceptable and what isn't, but rather introduces a grey area of theoretical offences that the Police have to consider each and every incident raised with them but may choose to exercise discretion over whether to prosecute. There's no certainly for parents any more ... they don't know what is allowed, what is right and what they are prohibited from doing. In addition, Bradford's bill gave feuding parents another stick with which to beat each other, in the most horrible way possible, as well as providing shitlet older children with a method by which they can attack their parents.
The situation's disgusting. The sooner this government goes, and the Green Party gets lined up against the wall and shot with greenhouse-gas producing bullets, the better.
But you have tattoos and piercings ... your parents must be wishing they'd got out the cat'o'nine tails now.
Originally Posted by 007XX
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