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Report Suggests That Nanny State Might Actually Not Be For the Best
tonyreadsnews writes "Usually, 'thinking of the children' is a starting point to impose limitations on video games and internet in general. For once, a study requested by UK's Prime Minister seems to be a bit more objective than most. In the Executive Summary (PDF) 'Children and young people need to be empowered to keep themselves safe — this isn't just about a top-down approach. Children will be children — pushing boundaries and taking risks. At a public swimming pool we have gates, put up signs, have lifeguards and
shallow ends, but we also teach children how to swim.' I think that is an important point that most studies miss, that just 'thinking of the children' and locking the bad stuff away is actually setting them up for failure later in life. A direct link to the full PDF is also available."
I always thought it was called either "culling the herd" or "being a Darwin Award recipient".
The needs of the US are different from the UK.
Obese people just naturally float, just like the really big chunks in the septic tank (and politicians) always rise to the top ...
Kevin Smith on Prince
Prediction: The real iPhone killer is going to be sex robots from Japan. Think about it.
Think of the politicians! Think of the gadflies!
Won't somebody think of the busybodies?
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
NEVER SHAKE A BABY!
Prediction: The real iPhone killer is going to be sex robots from Japan. Think about it.
I know we were all expecting "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense", but I was really hoping someone would tag it "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" instead.
Been done already.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
I think it's a great idea to warn people about the danger of the nanny state. I showed that article to a friend of mine, who is a Congress staffer in Washington D.C. He was enthusiastic. His boss will present it in commission. They'll form a committee to formalize these recommandation and will draft a bill.
The bill will create a new Federal agency, the Protection Against Nanny State Agency. This new Agency will monitor public behavior and watch for complacency and exaggerated reliance on the State. Its agents will have power to monitor private conversations and intervene in public or private places. Whenever someone will be heard saying "they oughta be a law" or "why doesn't Congress do something", the agents will intervene, battering down doors if needed, and vigorously wag an aseptic, non-latex-gloved finger in the face of the offender, who will be sternly warned: "That would be asking for a nanny state, Sonny".
The new Agency will cost an estimated $134 billion a year. But this is a small price to pay, considering the Federal government will protect us against the growing menace of the Nanny State.
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Your logic and facts have no place in politically charged public discourse.
Yes, I am a smart ass; it's better than the alternative.
news - there's a great tag. Can someone also tag it slashdot in case we forget?
Wait a minute...objective opinion...that doesn't make any sense at all! I should lay off the cough syrup.
We're protecting the swear words, not the kids.
If we have six-year-olds running around saying "fuck" willy-nilly, all that does is ruin the shock value of a perfectly good swear word. At that point you might as well be saying "boink."
"Oh yeah, boink me harder, baby."
"If Johnson doesn't get that report in by Tuesday the whole department is boinked!"
Now where's the fun in that? We'd just have to come up with a NEW swear word so horrifying that no child would be able to pronounce it without immediately being swallowed by the jaws of Hell, and honestly, I don't really feel like digging that far into the Windows API documentation.
Option A: Give the government control over a human experiment which will cause untold suffering, be vulnerable to abuse, is ethically and morally anathema to everyone I know, and is doomed to failure.
Option B: Have more unprotected sex with a clean partners.
I'll take Option B. Thanks.
Oh hell. Ya write a post that is 99% Interesting and Informative and Insightful and reasonable and logical and you talk to people like adults... and 1% of the post ya put in the two lousy words "crotch fruit" and suddenly the only label you've got is (Score:5, Funny).
Crotch Fruit.
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