A Canadian court has lifted a 12-year-old girl's grounding, overturning her father's punishment for disobeying his orders to stay off the Internet, his lawyer said Wednesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080618...ldcourtoffbeat
This seems too crazy to be true but it is.
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Canada is losing the plot. What a joke. The sad think is that the Human Rights on steroids approach is coming here too. We will soon have our own absurdities to laugh at.
Canadian courts have form when it comes to finding wierd human rights but Canadians are fairly cool about them, they're used to it.
If engineers were wrong as often as economists, would anyone fly aeroplanes?
Its being appealed. Relax. The Canadians are not THAT mad.
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In the early 1990s,two crazy politically correct incidents occured in Toronto that I heard about. An acquaintance in Toronto was living with his unemployed son aged in his early twenties in a large family house. He used to nag the son about his drug habits,so the son applied to social welfare for his own accomodation. The father pleaded with social welfare officials not to grant the application but they granted it on human rights grounds. Not long afterwards,when the son hadn't visited from his flat a short distance away,the father went to visit him. He found the son dead, hanging from the ceiling. He instinctively rushed to hold up the corpse.Originally Posted by taylorwemyss
An acquaintance told me about a situation I call Romeo and Juliet. A young couple aged fifteen attending high school wanted to live together. The parents of both families were opposed,so the kids applied to social welfare and got a flat on human rights grounds.
Canadians tend to be PC,possibly as a way to distinguish themselves from the botched US welfare state that neglects a very large percentage of low income people.
Those seem like well-justified decisions.
What % of 15 year olds do you think are responsible enough to be allowed to live on their own?Those seem like well-justified decisions.
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Would you grant that, if you thought a 15-year-old were responsible enough to be able to live on his own, that he should be entitled to apply for social benefits on the same basis as everyone else?
No, they're the responsibility of their parents, not the taxpayers'
If engineers were wrong as often as economists, would anyone fly aeroplanes?
Well, no,I don't think I would because I'm afraid it doesn't work like that. We can't be making up laws and then breaking them for special cases. For example, allowing that a certain % of the population, if they were to take heroin, would not become addicted and would suffer no significant adverse affects, is not good reason for giving them freedom from legal prosecution if they were caught in possession, in my view.Would you grant that, if you thought a 15-year-old were responsible enough to be able to live on his own, that he should be entitled to apply for social benefits on the same basis as everyone else?
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