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Re:Covered By Twenty Percent of the Bill of Rights (Score:5, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05, @03:38PM (#27836161)

I will say now and I have always said it, this is an adult’s world. I am tired of our elected officials, and these parent groups trying to turn the real world into some giant fucking playpen. I love how politicians upon election catch a tick that forces them to compulsively think of the children and try to legislate away our rights so that we can protect snot nosed little assholes. I’m sorry, your kid may be cute to you, your kid may be your pride and joy but they are also becoming an obstacle to the ideals of this country. Look at what is being done all over the United States to shelter kids from the air everyone else breathes. Phys Ed is started to take on a “no loser” policy where everyone must engage in an activity where there are no losers and everyone is a winner because of some need not to make a child feel bad. Do people honestly think that is in the child’s best interest. Look at parent groups like the PTC trying to take anything and everything that aren’t mindless programming off the air because a kid might see it. Now we have this cyberbulling bullshit because some kid(s) with emotional problems offed themselves.

Every generation of adults look at the world around them and realize that it is the same shitty world their parents inherited (just with newer technology) and thinks that if they shelter their children, they will grow up to create a perfect world. Doesn’t seem to work like that. You keep a kid away from the feelings of losing, sadness, stress, and fear and when those feelings finally hit you have just created a generation of mal-adjusted assholes. Being a child is not some magic state that becomes undone on somebody’s 18th birthday. A kid is just an adult in training and we (society AND parents) should keep that in mind. Having said that, fuck your children, they are your problem. I won’t go out of my way to harm a child but I am also not going to curtail my rights and liberties because some kid might cry.

Re:Covered By Twenty Percent of the Bill of Rights (Score:5, Insightful)

by Psmylie (169236) * on Wednesday May 06, @09:38AM (#27844751)
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It’s easier, better, and more effective in both the long and short run to world-proof a child than it is to child-proof the world. I agree with you 100%.

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