I would have said the same thing about the United States prior to this event, so be careful of making such definitive proclamations.
You mean like your "definitive proclamation" about my children being "free range animals"?
You are so low, that you go after people's children in your pathetic and petty anger?
Yes, because I'd much rather come from a society that does shit like this to its kids.
We actually do not do "shit like this to its children".
But I understand you had to find the worst case scenario site to try and prove your point. I suppose I should not expect anything less from you, seeing that you are the type of person to attack another person's children because you're pissed off about something or other.
The Bill being proposed in Western Australia would give children the right to consent to medical procedures that may have otherwise been forced on them. In other words, they are trying to give the children a say in what is done to them. The issue with the Bill is that there is no definition on how mentally capable a child has to be before he or she can consent or refuse a procedure.
Seeing that children are not capable of forming or making legal decisions, nor are they legally allowed to sign a contract (if they did, it would be deemed unbinding), I have a hard time understanding how the conservative and well, right wing, Premier of the State and his conservative Government is going to be able to pass it without severe ammendments.
While the Bill may give children an out from parents who may try to force certain treatments and procedures on them that they may not agree with, its wording also leaves it open to a lot of immoral and dangerous risks to the children themselves.
But nice try JDawg.
And who are you talk about attitudes and aggressive nature? Every other word out of your mouth is an insult or condescension.
So I'm not "making you wet" JDawg?
If you want to talk about insult and condescension, you might think about your actions and what you actually PM people you barely know and what you then say about other people.
Temper tantrums absolutely can be indicators of an underlying mental condition, yes, and I think the violent nature of this particular tantrum qualifies it as a fit.
You have obviously never had children.
That's a bit unfair, since most parents have a very hard time dealing with their own child's tantrums. Do they then have no place trying to raise children? Or was this just another example of you making a definitive statement in lieu of presenting a reasoned argument?
Actually, parents do know how to deal with their children's temper tantrums. They deal with them all the time. Teachers are supposedly trained in education, communicating and dealing with small children. And they are hired to do so. If they are unable to handle a small temper tantrum (and believe me, if tearing posters off walls, tipping over a small shelf which then hit the principal and jumping around and screaming is all that she did, that's actually not a bad one) without calling the police and worse, allowing and consenting to the police to handcuff and put her in a squad car to take to the police station as though this was somehow acceptable to them, then they have no place being in that classroom.
You have stated yourself the school and its staff and the police acted wrongly and badly in the case. Or this is just you arguing with me because you suddenly have a bee up your butt and have a pathological need to argue with me?
Yeah, because Australia's so much better.
Our teachers can actually read.
And if we are to compare, yes,
we are better.
I was not advocating either solution, but surely an ambulance ride and a hospital bed would have been better than handcuffs, the backseat of a cop car, and a police station interrogation room? As to the padded cell, I was simply replying to another poster's assertion that police stations had rooms where people could not hurt themselves. You would have known that if you hadn't taken my comment out of context.
Calling an ambulance and taking a 6 year old to a hospital because she's having a temper tantrum..
Hmmm..
Sooooo much better.
I don't disagree that this situation was handled poorly. However, I don't simply pretend there aren't mitigating factors out of fear that I might have to come down off my soap box. But then, that's the difference between someone looking to have a conversation, and someone who just wants to yell their ideas at people.
And then we have
you, making a target of other people's children and attacking and insulting said other people's children by saying they are "free range animals".