(September 18, 2011 at 2:27 am)IATIA Wrote: When I went to school, the worst thing the kids did was smoking. Corporal punishment was banned and now smoking is a 'good' thing. If only that was all they did.
(September 18, 2011 at 3:53 am)Napoleon Wrote: 1. Since when did smoking become a good thing?
If you would notice the single quote qualification, I was not suggesting smoking was good, but rather relative to the issues being dealt with today.
(September 18, 2011 at 3:53 am)Napoleon Wrote: 2. Your hypothesis of who voted what is based on nothing more than just that, your imagination. I reckon that the people who vote against it do so because there are other alternatives and they see no need for corporal punishment. Not because they are 'young'. Age doesn't really have anything to do with it IMO.
Age has everything to do with it. Us 'baby-boomers' were raised in a different world. We had gas wars. 19 cents a gallon. A new mustang was $3000. There was no security at the airports. You could follow family and friends to the gate and see them off. We had corporal punishment. We now see the results of the lack of same.
We did not have 'smart phones', texting, video games, etc. We actually had to talk to people and deal with the real world. Everything today has become so impersonal and, combined with the lack of discipline, America is suffering. Neighborhoods today see more tagging in one day than we saw in our day over a period of years. We see the difference. There is a difference.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
