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No I did believe in god then. But I was only a young boy of 13, there's no depth or understanding there.

Reapply for NCAP moderator. Emphasize your contributions and how you love kway and agree with her on everything, and play down your radicalism. Change it all once you get in.

Do you pray? How do you do it? I've always wondered. I can recall praying when I was a young boy, in the sense of consciously considering mistakes I'd made, and thinking about values I should hold, but it seemed kind of onanistic navel gazing. Like most people, I spend way too much time on my...

How would that work? Under your belief in a right of autonomy for children, a private security organisation would only be able to negotiate and advertise to children to try to convince them to take advantage of rehousing services. Pedophiles could set up their own security organisation, that...

Why did you quote me when you made this post?

If a parent has failed to care for the child appropriately, and the child has good reason to wish to leave, another authoritarian organisation, the state, is best able to judge whose care the child should be placed in. If the child alone is allowed to choose who they live with, they are...

It seems absurd to say it's better for a 4 year old to be allowed to run away from home than for their parents to force them to return home. Can I pull my child away from playing on the edge of a cliff, or is that an unreasonable violation of their autonomy? Compromising on their autonomy has...

But as a parent it is a responsibility to program your child, at least to an extent. Children are required to surrender rights to autonomy to parents in a number of ways for their own safety, the freedom from forcible programming is arguably one of these. I don't believe you ever need to use...

Yeah there's an aftermarket hardtop that fits early MX5s. Official mazda accessory, they sold loads of them because no one likes convertibles, very common on used examples, like so But it's no use. The damage has been done.

I'd heaps prefer a hardtop but the MX5 is the only car that is everything I want in a car i.e. 4 cylinders for economy, rear wheel drive for max doughies, non-turbo, not ancient and fucked, <$10'000 used. Unfortunately it has a folding roof. It'd probably be gr8 to drive, but I'd feel heaps...

If someone is initiating unwarranted force against you, it is only appropriate to defend yourself in proportion to the force used by your attacker. The law recognises this, in cases of self defense against any attacker, you may still be prosecuted if the force you use is deemed excessive. If...

I don't feel the distinction is justified. To quote myself: I don't understand how a young child can be developed enough to recognize the cause and effect of smacking, but not of other punishments. I don't think the emotional impact of isolating them for a time out, in combination with you...

I don't believe it implies that. Having a relationship with someone should never convey ownership. This whole discussion is about whether that moral is correct. A moral must be rationally justifiable. I argue that the only thing that should be important is the health of the child. If...

The child belongs to themselves alone. Anyone who is given a duty of care, which includes teachers, must by necessity apply some sort of discipline. If the best punishment for this circumstance is physical, then it should be applied.

Re: Refugees leach over half a billion dollars of tax payer money in the last 24 mont Potential refugees might not think the population density is too high, but they won't be able to find anywhere they can afford to live. They can't increase the housing density if they can't afford property...

Re: Refugees leach over half a billion dollars of tax payer money in the last 24 mont Aren't the problems you've indentified, problems with all welfare recipients? All these incentives that are created to give free money and accommodation to immigrants equally apply to born citizens. They will...

Just sayin what we're all thinking.

Why do parents have any more right to hit the child than anyone else?

Re: Refugees leach over half a billion dollars of tax payer money in the last 24 mont Why is it worse for a refugee to claim welfare than any other citizen? Why does being born here make you more deserving of assistance than any other individual?

Okay, so the use of the cane on school children younger than that should be acceptable?