Comments on: Should parents be licensed to have children?

By: susan 28

susan 28 — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:28:56 +0000

“Let the people who don’t understand figure it out for themselves. That seems to be the only way we get it.”

Libertarianism in a nutshell! Good Show Babe (i mean Bob)!!

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:47:35 +0000

Well meaning but without understanding.

Thumbs up to that line.

I think if we lived long enough to understand everything, we would just sit back and do nothing. Let the people who don’t understand figure it out for themselves. That seems to be the only way we get it.

By: Highlander

Highlander — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:21:52 +0000

The remarks were:
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20. Fire alarm systems
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While I understand the bad side to this, you do realize there are sooo many bad parents out there who wind up turning their children into bad hats of society through their lack of parenting skills? Even neglect is abuse. What do you think happens to neglected children who never get any guidance and love? The role of parents is far more important than most realize, and this is the root of the problem.
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What’s ~your~ idea of ‘bad hats?’
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WHO gets to decide what ‘good parenting’ actually is?
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And from precisely ~where~ did THEY obtain their credentials to prognosticate at length over what ‘good parenting’ is versus ‘bad parenting?’
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What happens if –no matter how well a child is reared– s/he turns out to be worse than the worse-reared child?
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You apparently have been led to believe that ‘proper parenting’ is the be all and end all of the matter.
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Were we to take you at your word, then there would be no child raised in poverty, and the only way to have a child is to be wealthy enough for that to happen.
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Quote for you:
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“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.”

~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis ~
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By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:21:37 +0000

The law that wouldn’t let them show Elvis from the waist down on T.V. held for a little while, Highlander, but that’s the only one I can think of.

Good point.

By: Highlander

Highlander — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:59:04 +0000

AD,
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“There is something wrong with a system which allows people to breed, especially when those same people would be denied a car loan/mortgage.”
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Without launching into an extended discourse on the matter, allow me just this: What you propose is nothing short of genocide.
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Only ~some~ people get to ‘breed’ while the rest of us are relegated to worker bee status until we’ve lived out our ‘usefulness.’
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Gee, imagine that: If you happen to have of a certain lineage, why you’ll be forever denied the ability to acquire any degree of wealth such as to afford a ‘mortgage,’ or ‘car loan.’
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Yeah, and there goes >YOUR< family line …
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Licensure you say?
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Answer just this question: WHAT man-made law has =EVER= stopped anything from happening?
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By: AD

AD — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:45:17 +0000

There is something wrong with a system which allows people to breed, especially when those same people would be denied a car loan/mortgage.

To add insult to injury, these undeserving/selfish individuals are then given the ability to pay for these children, at the expense of working/deserving people.

People should be required to have a psych-exam, a credit check and prove they are serious about having children.

This would do a great deal to end welfare (for the most part)
and prevent child abuse.

I’m not exactly happy about government regulation encroaching into our private lives, but there comes a point when people have to be made to be responsible to the rest of humanity.

By: Highlander

Highlander — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:20:17 +0000

Realization is like the dawn: At first it’s dark, yet the birds are singing.
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Slowly there comes the early light, but only a few people see.
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Yet even when the sun breaks the horizon, less than half are awake enough to notice: All the others are still fast asleep.
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By the time the sun has fully risen, the ones still asleep will consider it an imposition to have been disturbed, and take notice of what’s been going on …
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Such is the nature of Man.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:01:59 +0000

I’ve heard it argued that Ghandi wouldn’t have made it very far against Stalin or Mao, and that’s probably true.
Passive resistance can work sometimes, but no two situations are the same.
Do whatever works, and you’re right Highlander, the more people resisting the better.
We’re going to see a lot of resistance when we’re all broke and there’s no money to pay the enforcers.

I’m tired of sounding like a broken record but the time is coming.
I’m starting to feel like the old guy down the street from me. He was ‘born again’ in the early eighties and put up a big sign along the road in front of his house. It said “JESUS CHRIST IS COMING SOON!”. Over the years, the paint faded, the plywood cracked and one of the signposts rotted off. He put up another sign in the old one’s place just a year and a half ago. It only says, “Jesus loves you”.

Well, I’m not changing my line. FINANCIAL COLLAPSE IS COMING SOON! I’ve been preaching that since before the old guy put up his first sign. I have to be right sooner or later.

By: Highlander

Highlander — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:29:20 +0000

Don,

The very best suggestion one might proffer is just this: Ignore the state.
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REALLY: It’s as simple as that.
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Yeah, I know, you’re gonna say: But they’ll get around to you, sooner or later.
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And if sooner or later half the citizens has decided to IGNORE the state, then what’re they gonna do? LOCK AWAY HALF THE CITIZENS?!!?!?!
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Not that the COMMUNOFASCISTS wouldn’t try …
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Gandhi had the right idea: Passive resistance works, when employed in its proper way.
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There’s an old maxim in law: The law which cannot be enforced is no law at all.
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Screw the state! Philosophically speaking, of course!!! ;-)

By: Don

Don — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:23:00 +0000

All of this sounds like a federal marriage license. Marriage licenses are issued by states and counties. This is the only part of our lives the feds haven’t stuck there noses in yet.

Another license of course creates another government agency at some level and more agencies at lower levels to regulate and at some point issue the license. As we all know government agencies never go away (like the REO that Reagan tried to eliminate).

With more agencies comes more regulations and even more regulations breeding faster than rabbits. It never ends.

As for eugenics laws some of these never went away. They were watered down and incorporated into existing marriage laws. Some states require a blood test before a marriage license is issued. Others require parenting classes. People adjudicated as mentally ill cannot get married and have children in some states. If the do have children child protective services tries to take the children away.

The messianic state sooner or later gets what it wants.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:15:34 +0000

Mother Nature has the best eugenics program around. If you can’t look after yourself, you die. It keeps the species at it’s best all the time. We just have to quit getting the way.

Parasites have a place in nature but they take responsibility for what they do. Producers try to kill them off at every opportunity. Only the toughest, wiliest parasites survive.

When we get back to basics one of these days, we’ll still have politician parasites but they’ll be Churchills and Hitlers. The best and the worst.
We’ll still have coked up pregnant strippers too, but they’ll be fantastic dancers and damned good lookin’.
What a wonderful world it will be.

I thought we would be well into it by now. Damned Obama and his stupid stimulus package. He’s whipping an old crippled up and dying horse. If we’d get out of the wagon and walk, we might get somewhere.

By: Highlander

Highlander — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:17:57 +0000

Michael,
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The problem with =ANY= government program is that it’s a ‘government program.’
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By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:23:00 +0000

Just a little eugenics……

But FDR is already dead!

The problem with a government program is you can never get the right people in charge.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:21:56 +0000

“Welfare doesn’t pay enough for me to buy cocaine now, I don’t know what I’ll do when my baby is born.”

That’s an actual quote from a documentary I watched about the life of a stripper. If you could get the right people in charge, maybe a little eugenics would be okay.
Just a little eugenics…..

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:10:53 +0000

Would any of this really matter to a 17 year old at the drive-in?
Laws can only go so far before the government imposing them gets taken down. People don’t really change.

I don’t think the eugenics would get off the ground today. We have too many human rights groups running around contesting everything in court. One guy even won 300,000$ against the hospital that circumcised him as a baby. It wasn’t a botched operation or anything, he just didn’t think they should have done it.

Today it’s my legal right to be an inbred, halfbreed, incompetent, homo retard dammit! So back off with that knife or I’ll sue! And keep the checks comin’.