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Thread ID: 105025 2009-11-16 18:49:00 The March Chilling_Silence (9) PC World Chat
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830782 2009-11-17 23:44:00 The last referenda was so badly written as to be a farce. lobby groups present things as they what them to be seen. And if your not specificly involved or far away from the issue. Then why should your opinion matter.

There was nothing wrong with the question on the last referendum. Only the left had problems understanding it..
paulw (1826)
830783 2009-11-18 03:29:00 There was nothing wrong with the question on the last referendum. Only the left had problems understanding it..

OK - the question was coherent if taken on its own. BUT - what was it addressing? The S59 amendment just enacts what I said in my early post - it removed the loophole surrounding "disciplining" your kids, just by giving kids the same protection against violence as anyone else. It doesn't say anything about criminalising parents.

You'd be quite entitled to take your best mate to court for assault if he flicked you on the ear while mucking around, say. Not that you'd get very far for something that trivial. The same applies to your kids. If there was some real harm done in a "disciplinary" act on a child, it deprives the adult of the traditional defense in these cases if taken to court.
MushHead (10626)
830784 2009-11-18 06:26:00 Surely nobody could wish to repeal that magnificent piece of regulatory brilliance? Just look how many kids it has saved already. R2x1 (4628)
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