<I think the proposed law is vile, inhuman, and degrading.>
Get a grip CB. When superlatives are fired around, it leaves little vocabulary for actually inhuman, vile and degrading things.
I've contended with such things in New Zealand, being suspended from school [along with my younger sister] and awaiting a Supreme Court judgment [which went against freedom and self-determination and in favour of school authority]. Sure, I was annoyed, but didn't and still don't think of words such as vile, inhuman and degrading.
Heck, every day I deal with capricious authoritarians wielding their petty bureaucratic state-backed power. If I was apoplectic about each intrusion I'd have high blood pressure and a need for pharmaceutical calming.
Putting up with and handling such stuff is good training for adult life. The Moslems will learn from their school experiences about the unpleasant effects of state-backed authority on individual freedom. Not all school lessons are those that the authorities think they are teaching.
Mqurice
PS: Vile, inhuman, degrading are words better used in the context of, for example, current New Zealand and USA race and gender laws. Racial segregation was common not long ago in the USA. Now THAT was vile, inhuman and degrading. |
