Mass sterilisation!

It's a difficult one.

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But should the girl I mentioned be allowed to have children? Are we going to allow what amounts to premeditated child abuse by being sointransigent in protecting our delicate sensibilities on freedom of choice?</p>

 

It is difficult, I agree...

but who has the right to play God?

Where would you draw the line? Fat people? Menial workers?

It's going too far imho....although the situation you mentioned is quite possibly the worst scenario I can think of....

 

I think it's when we ask where we draw the line.......

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...that we're most at risk of bottling difficult but necessary decisions. I think we could look at a system where a case is reported to an agency (by a GP, Hospital, social worker or whatever) which then investigates and applies to the courts. After all we already havecompulsory measuresin place to deal with the dangerously mentally ill. I'm not suggesting the girl is mentally ill but I thinksociety hadalready failed her enough andI don't think for a minute she wanted to be pregnant.</p>

 

RE: It's a difficult one.

The child would, quite likely, be taken straight into care.

 

Tragically irresponsible, agreed. nt

 

What a load of arse. So you two silly tw@ts have never been to school or college?

Get a grip FFS!

 

But GB has..

Always had the underclass you refer to. Who do you think provided
the troops that won an empire, or who lost their lives in the two world
wars ?

You could say that it was "managed" better under the old class system.
However it has always been there, just not visible. You only have to read
a little bit on the centre of London in the 16th and 17th Centuries, details
of the rookeries in the cities in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the
slums and tenements of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Prostitution, poverty,
drug abuse, violent crime, sex crimes, unwanted pregnancies, back street
abortion, no-go areas, organised crime etc etc .... nothing new under the sun
and all that. The upper classes and chattering middle classes did a good job
of ignoring it.

Nowadays thanks to the all encompassing media and modern
sensibilities that are easily offended we just notice it more !!


Stands back and awaits the onslaught !!

 

You sound like you have a dream

Get some public speaking lessons, a natty moustache, some brill cream,and find a country in economic trouble ...who knows whatit could be the start of</p>

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Thats an excellent post mate, and totally correct....

The World Wide Web has a lot to answer for....

 

difference with the underclass of old was "you don't work you don't eat" - gave them a little incentive that. under new labour "you don't work, no prob, we'll pay you to sit at home on your scruffy idle fat arse watching jeremy kyle on your 42" lcd tv paid for by stupid cnuts like me who have to get up at 5.30 every morning"