Lethal Injection Under Fire Again

[Drasca]

So instead we should do nothing at all?. . . the solution is not to remove all limits and sweep the unlucky ones under the rug.

What nice imaginary straw men you have talking. Firstly, I still suggest you take a close look at your state and provincial child services policies and actual actions. Secondly, 'all limits' is highly unlikely to happen. Secondly, if Age of Consent were to be moved to 12, the limits would likely be redefined around that age. 18+ would still likely go to jail, but those under 18 would not likely achieve an unnecessary statutory rape charge when some DA or parent feels particularly vengeful. Third, laws, like walls, are only as effective as the will and manpower enforcing them. A 15 year old isn't going to be magically protected if they're caught in bed with someone in their 30's. There's no substitute for training good judgement. Even with good intentions, these laws, when hastily made and ill thought out, can be used vengefully and end up protecting no-one except certain people's wallets.

we now live with the various attempts to replace parents by "the all wise and all knowing experts."  Who are these people, and what is their aim?  Where does this core idea come from, that children are the property and wards of the state?  The economies of scale are logically used for public education.  Benefit, or another thin end of another wedge?  [right][snapback]107362[/snapback][/right]

There's quote from Frank Herbert's Children of Dune "The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery." When you give your life over to machines, The government is an machine-like entity with no individual property. When something becomes perceived as non specific as everyone's responsibility, it become's no one's responsibility. The sense of personal responsibility and initiative becomes so diluted it soon become no one's. "It's not your responsibility." Given lack of responsibility in a non specific (public) state control, property in question suddenly becomes subject to the whim of whoever has current power over it, to be vandalized, mistreated, stolen, or misused.

The government is not a parent. It does not take action with the child's interests in mind. The goverment is not designed for that, and if we enable that power, those powers will be taken with the state's interest in mind, not the child's.