[lit-ideas] Re: English Typo2 Schools
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:37:00 -0500
One more question. If you think the Prohibition analogy is so apt, can you
expand on it? Are you saying that if the U.S. were to outlaw corporal
punishment, therefore child beating speak easies would form? I don't quite
follow how you got from outlawing hitting children to outlawing alcohol.
----- 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
----- Original Message -----
From: eternitytime1@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 11:11 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: English Pubic Schools
Hi,
I suppose the quip that Irene/Andy has in mind is this:
"What one does in moderation, others will excuse in excess."
It's actually something that I learned in a Christian training class for people
who might *someday* want to be parents or who were already parents or who
wanted to get their lives 'right' with their parents/kids.
It's sometimes a useful principle to pay attention to...and has been used to
advocate certain positions such as Andy/Irene's.
As in the spanking issue, that way of thinking/principle is often used to
explain why there should be no alcohol.
At all.
That there should be laws to state that there should be none sold and that if
you sell it or buy it, you ought to be jailed/arrested.
In fact, when Irene/Andy drinks alcohol while watching a movie or serve it at a
party--then she/he is saying to the rest of the world that it is okay to drink
alchohol no matter what the reaction to your body will be, or how much you will
drink.
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
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:58:44 -0500
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: English Pubic Schools
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Sent: 2/17/2006 9:41:37 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: English Pubic Schools
In a message dated 2/17/2006 6:59:34 A.M. Central Standard Time,
aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
My point is that there needs to be a blanket law of you keep your hands to
yourself no matter what. Then there will be no extensive beatings.
Hi, Irene,
It is already illegal to do extensive beatings.
***If it was illegal to do any beatings, there would be no extensive beatings.
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