[lit-ideas] Re: English Typo Schools
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:17:07 -0500
Stan, just wondering, what do you think of the fact that Sweden made it illegal
for parents to spank children?
----- Original Message -----
From: Stan Spiegel
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 2/17/2006 2:04:57 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: English Pubic Schools
Marlena - It should be illegal for Irene/Andy and her husband to drink wine
while watching movies. Or to serve it during one of their parties.
When she does it, she is advocating alcholism, drunk driving, underage
drinking, etc etc. There are no limits on it because she is advocating it when
she/he is even drinking in moderation.
If it was illegal to drink alcohol, there would be no drunk driving, no
underage drinking, no alcoholism, etc etc.
Hoping Andy/Irene is tossing out the wine she just bought for the weekend and
expecting the start of a new prohibition movement,
Marlena in Missouri
Hi Marlena -
We've already gone through Prohibition. Haven't we learned anything from it?
Prohibit something and you make it all the more powerful and pervasive. Make it
illegal and we as a society will suffer all the more for it. That alone is
reason enough to avoid such measures. There are other persuasive reasons too,
but they pale in comparison.
"Forbidden fuit" as a proverb is meaningful because we know what forbidding
something means. Maybe you're such a "good" girl you're willing to comply. Most
of us aren't so compliant.
Stan Spiegel
Portland, ME
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