OT: And you thought the world was sane...

Tigbit · #1 August 23rd, 2003, 06:11 PM

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
How is watching students' weight an 'insanity'? Aren't schools supposed to be monitoring the health and welfare of the students?

A governmental power (be it a country or a school) has to strike a certain ballance between control and freedom. If you have too little control you have trouble, if you have too much control you will have fear. How does a power decide which is which? Do they really care if a certain control is going too far? Well, sometimes it takes the public to complain loud enough that members of the controlling power hear the message.

Yes we are supposed to be concerned with weight, but most of us are not. In a free society all the power can hope to do is show the public what is wrong or damaging to themselves and allow them to change their behavior on their own. Personally I find it going too far to enforce correct eating habits. Why do I think this? Well once a school has succeeded in that they will move onto another personal freedom they feel is damaging and try to enforce that, thinking the whole time that they are doing good, when in actuality they are whittling at more and more freedoms. Little we realize what is happening till it is too late to turn them back. This is why the story falls well in the catagory of insane.

Roanon · #2 August 24th, 2003, 03:30 AM

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Originally posted by Tigbit:
Personally I find it going too far to enforce correct eating habits.

Especially as it is VERY doubtful what "correct" eating habits are. All this diet stuff, sugar-free sugar, salt-free salt, fat-free fat and other chemical stuff that seems to be so popular among health fanatics in the US is definitely NOT healthy.

[ August 24, 2003, 02:31: Message edited by: Roanon ]

DavidG · #3 August 24th, 2003, 04:02 AM

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Originally posted by Tigbit:
When a kid's parent can sue a verocious dog owner for tearing his little boy apart after sending him in the yard (with signs on the fence stating clearly that the yard contains a bloodthirsty dog) to retrieve a frisbe

This guy's damn lucky he only got sued. He should be thrown in jail IMO.

Fyron · #4 August 24th, 2003, 05:14 AM

Why? The kid should not have been tresspassing on his property.

mottlee · #5 August 24th, 2003, 05:42 AM

I worked with someone a few years ago...he had a Rot that was chained up in the back yard in full view and he had to have it put down when some kid took a short cut that was in reach of the chain

Fyron · #6 August 24th, 2003, 05:51 AM

It is called natural selection. Humans can't escape it.

Tigbit · #7 August 24th, 2003, 07:55 AM

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Originally posted by DavidG:

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Originally posted by Tigbit:
When a kid's parent can sue a verocious dog owner for tearing his little boy apart after sending him in the yard (with signs on the fence stating clearly that the yard contains a bloodthirsty dog) to retrieve a frisbe

This guy's damn lucky he only got sued. He should be thrown in jail IMO.

Who's job is it to protect the stupid? After all there was clear indication of the danger. The parent should be sued for negligence and emotional damage to the owner.