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Thread ID: 102570 2009-08-24 10:19:00 Light Smacking - Yeah Right Twelvevolts (5457) PC World Chat
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803935 2009-08-26 11:43:00 Hanging kids won't go down well in all quarters - but we could have a referendum to see how popular it would be.
Hanging should be enough, but if it doesn't work we could try your suggestion and quarter the ringleaders I suppose. If there are still problems we would have to have a draw or two.
R2x1 (4628)
803936 2009-08-26 23:55:00 Draw with horses or up tech with D8 bulldozers? prefect (6291)
803937 2009-08-27 01:14:00 No Sol, she isn't confused . The word "smack" does not appear anywhere in the law . It is a form of assault and assault is unlawful .

Section 59 provides an exception, a defence for parents permiting mild assaults on their children as part of parenting .

NZ is a first world country yet we have alarming rates of child abuse . Anything which sends the message that hitting kids is wrong can only be a good thing .

Finally, someone on this forum who actually knows what they're talking about
Agent_24 (57)
803938 2009-08-27 01:21:00 Finally, someone on this forum who actually knows what they're talking about

Can we assume that once we stop smacking,we will see less deaths of infants?,I think not.

Deaths are a result of an unpleasant culture of violence and has no relation to slapping.
Cicero (40)
803939 2009-08-27 01:26:00 No smacking, slapping is is like on the Airplane movie where the air hostess brings hysterical passenger under control. prefect (6291)
803940 2009-08-30 05:09:00 Can we assume that once we stop smacking,we will see less deaths of infants?,I think not .

Deaths are a result of an unpleasant culture of violence and has no relation to slapping .

All beatings should continue until the violence stops . . .
Twelvevolts (5457)
803941 2009-08-30 07:11:00 Can we assume that once we stop smacking,we will see less deaths of infants?

Murder, fraud, and assault are all unlawful but still occur. Pointless laws, lets repeal them.
Winston001 (3612)
803942 2009-08-30 07:14:00 Murder, fraud, and assault are all unlawful but still occur. Pointless laws, lets repeal them.

Let's run a pilot in Southland first.
Twelvevolts (5457)
803943 2009-08-30 07:50:00 Murder, fraud, and assault are all unlawful but still occur. Pointless laws, lets repeal them.

The law is full of exceptions. For instance every person must wear a seatbelt except for those that do not, for one reason or another.

The fact that Section 59 provided an exception ( or a defence ) is no reason in itself to repeal such law.

The law simply does not work because there are always going to be those that do not care about others and will break, bend or twist laws without regard to the consequences if indeed there be any at all.
Sweep (90)
803944 2009-08-30 21:47:00 Seems to be another case of never the twain shall meet.

Or put another way,we that are right and the rest.

Those that are unable to see the difference between a beating and a smack are doomed to remain in ignorance.Simply no escape.
Cicero (40)
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