Child Abuse "On The Verge Of Torture" In The Name Of Christ

[Chimera Kitty]

Hahaha. Priceless!

Yes. No. Really, no. This is a specious argument indeed. You're saying that children and adults should be treated equally. Have equal access to drugs? And sex, too?

I don't see why not.

And sharp implements? And matches?

As in their own sharp implements and matches? Sure.

I was interested in the line of thought until he brought the third reich into it.

In a thread about people of a certain demographic group being sent off to concentration camps and tortured, Godwin's Law was bound to apply very quickly.

 

[Borachio]

I don't see why not.
As in their own sharp implements and matches? Sure.

Let's just hope you're never left in charge of children then.

 

[Phrossack]

Let's just hope you're never left in charge of children then.

Oh, don't be so harsh. A little serious injury every now and then builds character.

 

[warpus]

A little death has never hurt anyone.

 

[Crezth]

I don't see why not.

Underdeveloped prefrontal cortex, natural inability to exercise so-called "good judgement," etc.

 

[Chimera Kitty]

Underdeveloped prefrontal cortex, natural inability to exercise so-called "good judgement," etc.

Brain development doesn't mean a damn thing on its own when the end results are what matter. "Good judgement" is entirely a matter of opinion.

 

[Formaldehyde]

I was allowed to have my very own extremely sharp Boy Scout knife at the age of 8, which I took to school on a regular basis without giving it a second thought. I got my first BB gun a year later.

When I was 11, I caused a minor controversy on St Pete Beach when some neighbors called the police because I was walking home from the police range with my .22 rifle. I then proceeded to get onto a city bus to get the rest of the way home. The driver didn't say a word about it.

 

[classical_hero]

A little death has never hurt anyone.

Everyone needs a fatal every so often.

Link to video.

 

[Phrossack]

Everyone needs a fatal every so often.

Link to video.

That's actually one of my favorite sketches ever!

 

[classical_hero]

I prefer Elementary Dating for Men better, but the whole act is world class.

 

[Chimera Kitty]

I was allowed to have my very own extremely sharp Boy Scout knife at the age of 8, which I took to school on a regular basis without giving it a second thought. I got my first BB gun a year later.

When I was 11, I caused a minor controversy on St Pete Beach when some neighbors called the police because I was walking home from the police range with my .22 rifle. I then proceeded to get onto a city bus to get the rest of the way home. The driver didn't say a word about it.

Ah, the good old days. Where have they gone?

 

[kochman]

Formy lives very near me... beer summit Formy?

 

[Traitorfish]

A little death has never hurt anyone.

Well, it's like they say: "whatever doesn't kill me can only make me stronger". Nothing in there about it not killing anyone else.

 

[Crezth]

Brain development doesn't mean a damn thing on its own when the end results are what matter. "Good judgement" is entirely a matter of opinion.

You aren't grasping my point: it's a matter of psychology, not simply apocryphal accountings from "tradition." The underdeveloped prefrontal cortex means that they have poor judgement. It means that their executive function is underperforming, because it is still developing. It's why adolescents are (correctly) stereotyped as having fewer inhibitions, being more likely to take risks, as sometimes "disregarding" their own mortality. It's not that they think they're immortal, it's that their capacity for decision making is weaker, and the inhibition that would normally keep a sane person from going 120 mph in a 50 does not exist in an adolescent.

 

[Chimera Kitty]

Even if you could demonstrate a causal relationship, it would only mean that the individual's judgement gets better with age; it does not mean that every 18-year-old's judgement is going to be better than every 10-year-old's. On top of that, even if there was a lockstep relationship between age and "good judgement", with no variation from one individual to another, that's STILL not grounds for denying a person's rights. Washington supposedly said something about an unjust and unwise jealousy. Perhaps you could Google it.