Posts by dave crampton
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Why [doesn't Grant] bugger off and annoy some other blog?
Because he is a typical troll
Not just here, either.
http://www.humanitarianchronicle.com/2009/05/life-and-death-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-3180
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OK I dont mind disagreeing with people but I don't tolerate that. If thats the stuff Russell tolerates in his blog, and he doesnt delete it, then I don't engage with such idiots.
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From YouTube
Heh. Very tempted to link a certain son by Ian Dury and the Blockheads... thwack..
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Ah yes: "This boy is a brat."
And you know full well the difference between stating fact and opinion. And given that you publicly called Chuck Bird a public fool, you must feel one is entitled to an opinion.
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That's not what Parliament did dave. Read the debate, it's clear that they expected the law to be enforced. You're simply wrong.
..yeah right. why have an out clause ( police discretion) if parliament wanted every reported discretion enforced? Some people.....
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emotive, Russell emotive.Since when has a law been made on the basis that it is not enforced? Answer that.
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Since when has a law been made on the basis that it is not enforced? I ask that here
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10384076 -
The implication in the above indented comment is surely that the only real way forward for no one to hit children is to make it illegal.....
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Thanks Russell, I'm certainly sympathetic to your resolve. Your justifications appear be informed on your persuasions - not vice versa - and based on what others may or may not see as their right, or the outworking of their religious belief. But that does not mean you need to conclude that light corrective discipline should be against the law - a law that has a prison term attached to it.
It seems to me that the only real way forward is for no one to hit children
That's a bit like saying the only way forward to avoid cancer-related smoking deaths is to ban smoking, while permitting police discretion on a law banning cigarette sales in supermarkets. Law alterations have never - and will not - provided that way forward. Especially without education. If only people concentrated more on education and less on a desire to change the law.
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...not all researchers of your persuasion conclude in their research that light smacking leads to child abuse