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In article <53m8sp$pgl@noc.van.hookup.net>, Alleycat <opdi@netshop.net> wrote:
>In article <53jbg1$e1m@news2.cais.com>, joe311@comnet.org (Joe) says:
>>
>>Trish <Trish@speedy.ehs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>>
>>>>A line must be drawn somewhere; most people would agree the
>>>>above examples represent such a place. However, what if I raise my
>>>>kids to be snake handlers? Or worship Satan? It's a slippery slope.
>>
>>>  Indeed it is.  If you were to choose the above for them, 
>>>then so be it.  My point is, while I may not find it 
>>>personally to be a good choice, or rather a choice I would 
>>>have made, it's not my place or anyone elses to tell you it's 
>>>wrong for you and your's.
>>
>>That sounds good, but it's not exactly true.  Why isn't it anyone
>>else's place to tell someone how to raise "their" kid?   Poorly-raised
>>children eventually turn into maladjusted adults who cost our society
>>untold billions in dollars and suffering.     Most of the carnage in
>>our nation's cities is caused by people under the age of 18.
>>It really does take a whole village to raise a child.  Because it only
>>takes one child to destroy a whole village.
>>
>The thing is, who do you personally consider should be given the right
>to draw that line?  Even the best psychologists have problem kids.
>One person's line is markedly different than the other.  Don't you
>feel the line should be drawn by what the majority believes is right,
>rather than by a few human rights groups who tend to dictate to the
>rest of us, or by a few politicians who think they're Gods? -- Alleycat


Well, WHO DECIDES is already decided, at least in the USA.  It comes down
to whether a jury will convict an abusive or negligent, or even overly-
zealous religious parent.  

What juries will convict on is a reflection of our ethos, which is always
changing.

So, it is not "up to the majority," but up to the unanimity of a supposedly
random sample of society.  This is obviously not a perfect system, but
show me one better...  


--Al Date