Posts by nzlemming
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Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
That's what i thought when I looked at the paper this morning (yes, we do still get a hard copy. Mrs Lemming likes to do the crossword on the train into town).
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Now waiting for the inevitable recount...
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Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Ah, but there's been so many of them it's hard to keep up. As Ian might say: coming home to roost, they are.
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Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Sure it wasn't Spiny Norman?
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Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The…, in reply to Sacha,
Bugger.
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Hard News: The music I listened to, in reply to Peter Darlington,
Rather you than me, mate. Take care.
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Hard News: The music I listened to, in reply to Peter Darlington,
Why aren't you out sandbagging the town?
Seriously, how's it going down there?
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Hard News: News media meets new media:…, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Which is a problem, because there clearly (to me) seems to be a need to establish exactly what the link is between imagery and offending against children (and things associated with it.) Imagery created *through* offenses against children is one thing, but where do you draw the line with, frex, all the stuff the Australians have come down on with cartoons/underdeveloped adults?
Yup. NZ covers this in the law by having the phrase "tends to promote or support" which includes drawings, text, computer-generated graphics and, potentially, even discussions in print, if they're of a pro-paedophile nature like, frex, NAMBLA. The presumption is that imagery leads to physical abuse (both are offences here), end of story. Also, that even thinking about such material is so wrong it must be stamped out. 'Cause prohibition works so well, y'know? I don't want to denigrate the people doing the job at the coalface because they are, by and large, awesome and they really care about their work. It's the underlying societal assumptions we need to look at but as soon as you suggest that, you get looked at funny and people start thinking you must be one of "them", if you're asking these questions. Very tiring.
Frankly, I could do the work - I think I'm strong enough to deal with the content, with the appropriate support (which is where money comes in) - but the other factors of legality and acceptability tend to make it a bridge too far to consider.
It's sort of the same thing, though - taking people who can't consent to much at all, due to their age, and grooming them to be available for other people's consumption, sexual or not. That stuff is creepy because none of it is about what the individual kids and teens might want, it's about conforming them to what other people want from them.
Well, bloody said, that woman!
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Also, I can't believe we've come 26 pages without someone posting this:
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Damian Christie,
Out of interest, does anyone here (including the obvious candidates) not consider themselves to be middle class?
I thought of myself (when I considered it at all) as working class for many years because, y'know, I worked for a living, lived payday to payday, had no assets beyond my clothes, books and records that got moved from flat to flat. I was disabused of this fantasy by a couple of siblings who pointed out that, though Dad had worked in the Patea freezing works when young and clawed his way up the educational ladder to become a very senior public servant, our generation hadn't really wanted for the necessaries and was definitely middle-class.
I'm still not sure about that. As steven says, the bank considers me middle-classified by mortgage, though I appear to have little more actual spending money than I did in my footloose days, but I doubt that I was ever working class either. I'm really not sure those labels fit NZ anyway.
You can have an underclass, without the lower middle and upper ones - as Bart mentions, you can have several of them. We used to call them ghettos, before that became unfashionable.
I think people who want class warfare have no real idea what they'd do if they won. Except be part of an academic class chattering about labels because, really, some pigs simply must be more equal than other pigs.