-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Ann Morgan was heard to say: >... their is a point at which the > control over the child's fate should be taken away from an > incompetent or abusive parent, and given to someone else.
Taken by who? Given to who? On what authority? And who decides when that authority is being abused? Who pays the costs of the exercise of that authority, investigations, reparations, restitutions, etc? That is the problem with intervention. Each intervention causes problems which call upon more intervention to solve them, each of which causes problems which call for more interventions, ad infinitum. As an alternative, respect the decision of a kid to leave their home regardless of age. Liberty doesn't create utopia. Utopia is a _planned_ society, run by perfect philosopher Kings. Given a little thought, utopia is also impossible. What is possible is to give each other the maximum room to make individual choices for individual happiness. That includes helping out someone who is in trouble, but as an _individual_ action, with individual responsibility for that act, not institutional with its inherent problems of "limited liability". Curt- - -- This November, vote NO for all those who voted AYE: http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.asp?year=2008&rollnumber=681 http://tinyurl.com/4tg88o (senate) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSPXoLC9Y35yItIgBAQL1Xgf/TZt5C5baXBx7XRzh2yh1ekSYfsTFC3RL xG0ltKnFukt+48lkizNkVEdeqvv5IUKeeGVM4sccRncU92ZlbDzJYIoKH91uqfi8 Qzg8rdGpBpVb6b0mym2aWerbVE5tX0isBADanWb3hxFc83hpx7t+fr1hNEGS2GNW sqb1QAk5geeOlqGAhYW4xnb7mST11LKM7t1jZJ/K26rvtADYfC/pFWCnpUGNr8bV c2TKiWsK9+7ti6ml40lOdPbqAaq0EOIGKVkjlL7lOe6EPkPm+AWFU0gzI8yShm3T QW4n0OmHz5MOT/sU2EZpqfTzmp5qEjm/rkbP502G/2NNzOpx2xzGZA== =XuvW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
