Comments on: Banning smoking in cars

By: Deoxy

Deoxy — Tue, 02 May 2006 10:26:09 +0000

“We need to draw a distinction bewtween abuse and bad parenting. We are far too nanny-state-ish. Far too many bad parenting practices are being labeled child abuse.”

Exactly.

The problem is that the STATE has a track record as a FAR WORSE parent than almost any other. Children in the state’s care are, statistically speaking, the MOST likely to be mistreated.

By: MF

MF — Mon, 01 May 2006 18:52:48 +0000

We need to draw a distinction bewtween abuse and bad parenting. We are far too nanny-state-ish. Far too many bad parenting practices are being labeled child abuse.

By: wavemaker

wavemaker — Mon, 01 May 2006 15:53:32 +0000

maybe it should be child abuse to feed your children swordfish too, or to clean their bathroom with bleach products, or to permit them to eat too many Whoppers.

By: Deoxy

Deoxy — Mon, 01 May 2006 10:35:17 +0000

Hint: the people enacting this aren’t doing it “for th children”(TM). It is just another convenient excuse in the crusade to ban smoking everywhere, all the time.

And I say that as one who hates tobacco, whose spouse and one child are asthmatic and therefore highly reactive to cigarette smoke, and who is routinely offended by selfish public smokers.

The ends do not justify the means.

By: Amy Alkon

Amy Alkon — Mon, 01 May 2006 03:01:37 +0000

But, isn’t it child abuse to smoke around your kid? A kid shouldn’t have an increased chance of lung cancer, emphysema, and other diseases because it was born to a bunch of selfish morons.