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Rules for Teenage Internet Access?
Kent Brewster writes "Despite dire warnings, we've gone ahead and put computers with Internet access into our adolescent (11, 12, and 15-year-old) childrens' rooms. We've got a nebulous set of rules, which include several like these: Keep the door open when you're on the computer. Don't quickly exit from everything when we walk past. Don't ever lie to us about what you're doing. Unfortunately we've had instances where all of these rules - especially that last one - have been broken, so now we are looking at getting more specific. We'd be very interested in hearing from both sides of the fence: parents with Net-connected progeny, and those who are chafing under their rule. Parents, once you're past making the huge mistake of actually letting the kids have computers in their rooms, what's a reasonable set of guidlines? Non-parents, what are the rules that chap your hide the worst? Do they actually make a difference in your behavior, or do you just sneak past them anyway? Finally, and this is sort of a meta-question from an exasperated dad, does everybody lie about what they're doing on the Internet?"
While I respect your views, I would think the mass graves in Iraq would say that Saddam is indeed evil, whether he believes he was right or not.
I'm not a Bush-pushing "chronie" but put what you are saying into perspective, please.
Kind of like saying, "Hitler wasn't evil, just misunderstood."
(And no, the war wasn't about mass graves.)
Nobody thinks Saddam Hussain is evil?
I'm sure all those millions who were murdered in mass graves don't think he's evil.
And Al Queda just goes around blowing people (including themselves) up. I bet all the victims think he's deep down just got a "different perspective" and they accept that.
And Hitler. All the school girls loved him. Just ignore all the millions of Jews and others he slaughtered. Focus on the little school girls who loved him. Since *they* loved him, everyone must! And he therefore can't possibly be evil.
"If you believe you're good, then you are"
This is what happens when subjectivity is used to replace actual coherant thought.
If I told you I was George Bush the President of the United States, you'd probably believe me. After all, *I* (hypothetically) believe it's true therefore it must be.
And who are you to use your brain and question *my* reality?
The only people who can't admit Saddam is evil and needed to go are Liberal wackjobs that can't accept that Bush had even one good reason to go to Iraq.
Only in your imaginary LSD filled fantasy world does no one outside the US think Saddam is evil.
The argument isn't "does Saddam need to go?" it's "were we justified in the means we used to do it?"
And the Bush administration used the fact he was evil as a reason to get him out of power from the beginning. If he wasn't evil there would be no point in disarming him.
Revisionist history at it's finest.
Ben
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