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Thu Apr 19 13:34:53 BST 2007

How about the concept of a permissive society, where parents refuse to discipline their kids.  

Where teachers are not allowed to enforce discipline in the classroom, even though they are the sole adult figure in the lives of many of the kids.  

Where violence is rampant on TV, news and movies, and the "rating system" is either ignored or considered to be merely an inconvenience to the parents who just want to dump the kids of so that there can be 2 hours of peace in the house. 

Where parents allow kids that are under age to drink in their houses because "they are gonna do it anyway, and I would rather have them do it in MY house", and then can't imagine why the kids are dying in alcohol-crashes.

Where there are laws against child abuse but not against spousal or senior abuse.  

Where the criminal justice system has more stopgaps and rights given to the accused that there are available to the victims.  

Where there are celebrations in the streets when an individual who has multiple arrests for DUI actually gets punished.  

Where the legal system perverts the law just to get their clients off 'cause it's their job, and of course everyone is innocent till proven guilty.  Even if they know the client is guilty solely based on the evidence that was incorrectly collected

I could go on and on, but I think I will leave that to others on the list.  And how about a society that allows the concept, no, that fosters the "it's all about me" attitude.

Charles said it well yesterday - perhaps we should all understand that everyone wants to be treated nicely at least most of the time.  Hell, why not ALL of the time.

OK - so I better shut up now.  It was a tough night in the ED last night....

Y'all be well,
Ron

>>> "Bryan Boling" <bryanboling at gmail.com> 4/19/2007 8:15 AM >>>
Not to beat a dead horse, but it's my understanding that the UK has tough
gun control laws and very low gun violence (I don't know if this translates
to low violence in general or if people just find different weapons...).
Meanwhile, Washington DC has some of the toughest gun control laws in the US
and some of the HIGHEST rates of gun violence.  If this is all true (and
please correct me if it's not), it seems to me that there is some other
factor (or factors) in play here besides gun control....

bryan
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