(September 2, 2009 at 8:57 pm)Saerules Wrote: It does give them the power to do so, and it is something horrible to be forced into. If a girl will not otherwise tell her parents that she is pregnant: those parents were not worth telling in the first place. That is why this bill is wrong... because it lets bad parents stop an abortion from happening. Society's idea of 'adult' is wrong, Fr0do... and in it being wrong: millions of 'children' suffer and/or are held back from success. Nobody... ever... has... the... right... to... do... that. Not one person... not 10 people... not a society... and not gods.Surely this isn't saying that counseling and other forms of support to prevent child abuse will stop happening is it? Why so negative? Why does this signal the end of this world as you know it? What about the protection of the children by the parents? It seems you're restricting their rights as well. I know the care workers I know, even though they do their very best in the work they do, can in no way support anyone with the meagre resources at their disposal. Care is shoddy and sparse at best, and so is assessment. In a properly functioning family, which has to be the majority, the standard of care is far far greater than anything society provides.
So you think society is wrong in defining an adult?? Who decides that then? No one? You'd have no protection for children?
(September 2, 2009 at 8:57 pm)Saerules Wrote: A person who admits to their faults, their crimes, their accidents... that person is worth a thousand who would lie about their faults, justify their crimes, and deny their accidents. The former is humble... it is truthful... while their faults, crimes, and accidents may be terrible: those people are not truly evil. It is those from the latter group, those like Hitler... like Stalin... like Osama Bin Laden... those people are truly evil.Not even those people are truly evil. They were just people doing very bad stuff.
(September 2, 2009 at 8:57 pm)Saerules Wrote: Laws are generally formulated to result in a least harm scenario? What was American slavery again? What is this anti-abortion bill? How about the death penalty, and torture laws? And anti-women's rights laws that are in so many Muslim countries right now? Least harm? Really?Fair point. Which doesn't help your argument. This law seems to be only positive in intention, & not restrictive. As I've pointed out, there seem to be only benefits and not pitfalls as you suggest, unless you can provide more information.
