Ahmadinejad is a buffoon, and he's not the person running Iran.Ayatollah Khamenei is the one that could actually order a nuclear attack. Unlike Ahmadinejad, Khamenei doesn't make threats against Israel, and has publicly stated that the use of nuclear weapons is immoral. He will also still be in power long after Ahmadinejad is gone.
Um, that eases me. The prospect of another war in the Middle East scares the shit out of me. As the GP said, this fosters hatred, which makes Jews/Christians/Americans be murdered all over the world.
In fact, those assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists (which many people assume to be carried by the Mossad) may be a bad idea.
In the US, it seems that parents have more rights than their children, so you see home-schooling as the expression of a parent's right to educate their child as they see fit.
It is not that "parents have more rights than children". It is just that parents are, except under rare and extreme circumstances, the best people to protect their children's rights. It is like the concept of national sovereignty: the U.N. shouldn't, except under extreme circumstances, meddle into a country's internal affairs. This is not because "national governments have more rights than their citizens", it is just that national governments are better suited to protect their citizens rights than an international government. In fact, the national government should normally defer to the local government, and so on. By the way, this is another area where Americans have greater liberty: their political system is more decentralised, with each state having its own laws. This means that the laws of each state better reflects its population's values. It also means that you can easily change jurisdictions and find one that matches your beliefs. You can choose to live among rugged tea-partiers in Texas, and the corresponding laws, or among the more-leftist-than-Herbert-Marcuse-himself of Massachusetts or California. This freedom is awesome.
Within Europe, we're very keen on childrens' rights, and thus it's more important that every child is guaranteed access to a good standard of education, and we feel that home-schooling isn't sufficient for that. [...] , it's about protecting children from parents that don't really know how to teach.
Wrong. If the point was about good standards of education, they would simply mandate periodic exams, and send low-scoring kids to the regular school system.
It's nothing to do with idealogical uniformity
It has everything to do with ideological uniformity. From Wikipedia:
The European Court endorsed a "carefully reasoned" decision of the German court concerning "the general interest of society to avoid the emergence of parallel societies based on separate philosophical convictions and the importance of integrating minorities into society."[52]
In other words, they won't allow significant portions of their society to have unauthorised philosophical convictions.
In January 2010, a United States immigration judge granted asylum to a German homeschooling family, apparently based on this ban on homeschooling. This was damn right.
Calling this a Nazi-era persecution law just shows an ignorance of European cultural values.
Wrong. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
And Universal Human Rights transcend cultural borders.
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Ahmadinejad is a buffoon, and he's not the person running Iran.Ayatollah Khamenei is the one that could actually order a nuclear attack. Unlike Ahmadinejad, Khamenei doesn't make threats against Israel, and has publicly stated that the use of nuclear weapons is immoral. He will also still be in power long after Ahmadinejad is gone.
Um, that eases me.
The prospect of another war in the Middle East scares the shit out of me. As the GP said, this fosters hatred, which makes Jews/Christians/Americans be murdered all over the world.
In fact, those assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists (which many people assume to be carried by the Mossad) may be a bad idea.
How exactly has the GP infringed Slashdot's guidelines?
In the US, it seems that parents have more rights than their children, so you see home-schooling as the expression of a parent's right to educate their child as they see fit.
It is not that "parents have more rights than children". It is just that parents are, except under rare and extreme circumstances, the best people to protect their children's rights. It is like the concept of national sovereignty: the U.N. shouldn't, except under extreme circumstances, meddle into a country's internal affairs. This is not because "national governments have more rights than their citizens", it is just that national governments are better suited to protect their citizens rights than an international government. In fact, the national government should normally defer to the local government, and so on. By the way, this is another area where Americans have greater liberty: their political system is more decentralised, with each state having its own laws. This means that the laws of each state better reflects its population's values. It also means that you can easily change jurisdictions and find one that matches your beliefs. You can choose to live among rugged tea-partiers in Texas, and the corresponding laws, or among the more-leftist-than-Herbert-Marcuse-himself of Massachusetts or California. This freedom is awesome.
Within Europe, we're very keen on childrens' rights, and thus it's more important that every child is guaranteed access to a good standard of education, and we feel that home-schooling isn't sufficient for that. [...] , it's about protecting children from parents that don't really know how to teach.
Wrong. If the point was about good standards of education, they would simply mandate periodic exams, and send low-scoring kids to the regular
school system.
It's nothing to do with idealogical uniformity
It has everything to do with ideological uniformity.
From Wikipedia:
The European Court endorsed a "carefully reasoned" decision of the German court concerning "the general interest of society to avoid the emergence of parallel societies based on separate philosophical convictions and the importance of integrating minorities into society."[52]
In other words, they won't allow significant portions of their society to have unauthorised philosophical convictions.
In January 2010, a United States immigration judge granted asylum to a German homeschooling family, apparently based on this ban on homeschooling. This was damn right.
Calling this a Nazi-era persecution law just shows an ignorance of European cultural values.
Wrong. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
And Universal Human Rights transcend cultural borders.