I'd be arrested if I confined an adult to her room for the evening or took her technology away until she'd cleaned her room.
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I just think there are better arguments against smacking children than 'because you wouldn't get away with doing it to adults.'
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It's like the one that goes - 'It's hypocritical to oppose abortion but support the death penalty.' No, it isn't.
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Not unless its also hypocritical to support life imprisonment for serial killers but not for foetuses.
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You'll do better opposing the death penalty on humanitarian grounds (as I do) than making arguments which don't work logically.
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And supporting abortion on ethical grounds (as I do) than making arguments that don't work logically.
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It matters that arguments work logically especially if they are on behalf of issues you find important.
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Another one I get is 'You're alive because your mother didn't abort you so you must see that abortion is wrong.' WTF?
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I'm also alive because my great-grandfather raped his 14 year old maid. Does that mean we have to think that's morally good now?
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Cos you’d be in trouble if you stopped an Adult’s pocket money or sent them to their room too!
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Of course, if you were to say that you hated Harry Potter you would be dead to me!



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Harry Potter is wonderful! However, I gave up on Lord of the Rings halfway through when I was ten.
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This is getting a bit spooky. I decided half way through LOTR second time that I was fed up of Tolkien! But I was rather older than you!
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'You'd be arrested if you did it to a dog' is closer. In your care, in the sense that an adult is not.
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That's no good tho. I'd not be arrested if I cut a dog;s balls off.
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It’s a little bit scary how often you and I agree. I keep thinking there must be a subject on which we would ‘violently’ disagree!

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Hmm. Do you think it's reasonable to argue against religious belief even when it's not unethical but purely on the grounds of truth?
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Yes! As long as it is argument and not disdain
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You could press charges if someone smacked you like a kid, don't think it would go far though.
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