Why is this illegal?

[PKT_VOL]

Your first two paragraphs are intriguing; I will digest over time

Ha. Take your time. I wish my original response hadn't got deleted. Ten fold better response.

Btw. I enjoyed the brouhaha you created over in the Around the NCAA forum.

 

[n_huffhines]

Ha. Take your time. I wish my original response hadn't got deleted. Ten fold better response.

Btw. I enjoyed the brouhaha you created over in the Around the NCAA forum.

going to find out what I missed

 

[therealUT]

Ha. Take your time. I wish my original response hadn't got deleted. Ten fold better response.

Btw. I enjoyed the brouhaha you created over in the Around the NCAA forum.

There are some really fired up and angry individuals over there.

I never realized that asking questions and saying that it is possible that individuals might not know all the answers would create such an emotional outrage.

 

[RespectTradition]

I imagine that making the selling of babies legal would incite an increased number of kidnappings.

Kidnapping is a crime and can be dealt with as such. Vehicular homicide is a crime, should we outlaw driving cars? Of course not. Just because something can happen, does not mean that you should outlaw prior, perfectly innocent, actions.

I can only guess as to what was confusing to you but I'll take my best shot; I took TRUT's observation to draw some kind of comparison to showing concern for children's welfare to vehicle registration. My original post on the matter was only to track ownership. (since we're free to sell kids on Craigslist at this point) My other post in reply to TRUT's was to point out that vehicle registration really isn't something that's concerned about the "welfare" of the vehicle. It could be running low on dirty oil and rusting and it wouldn't matter to the County Clerk's office.

Hope this cleared up any ambiguity.

I actually don't think anyone here is in favor of selling children. I believe what we have is a lack of precision. I think, and I could be wrong, that what we are actually talking about is selling parental rights. We never own another person.

 

[PKT_VOL]

There are some really fired up and angry individuals over there.

I never realized that asking questions and saying that it is possible that individuals might not know all the answers would create such an emotional outrage.

Seriously. It's amazing how may posters, while having valid points of their own, completely miss the point or essence of your posts. Then again, I am sure you are use to that by now.

Your position remind me of one of my favorite quotes:

"Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world" ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

 

[therealUT]

Seriously. It's amazing how may posters, while having valid points of their own, completely miss the point or essence of your posts. Then again, I am sure you are use to that by now.

Your position remind me of one of my favorite quotes:

"Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world" ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

253. At the foundation of well-founded belief lies belief that is not founded.

254. Any 'reasonable' person behaves like this.

550. If someone believes something, we needn't always be able to answer the question 'why he believes it'; but if he knows something, then the question 'how does he know?' must be capable of being answered.

611. Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic.

On Certainty
L.W.

Of course, Wittgenstein was just another philosopher that never did anything (aside from winning countless medals for bravery, courage, and valor in WWI)...

 

[YorkVol]

I think that's too much club for the green I think you're trying to hit. The registering of my vehicles yearly has nothing to do with what condition the cars are in or how well (or badly) I'm treating them.

Many states require basic safety and emission inspections.

 

[hndog609]

I actually don't think anyone here is in favor of selling children. I believe what we have is a lack of precision. I think, and I could be wrong, that what we are actually talking about is selling parental rights. We never own another person.

Now I might be the one being wrong but just on the face of it having one party hand over a baby to another party for financial compensation and calling it "selling parental rights" as opposed to "sale of a child" looks to be making one really, really fine distinction.

 

[hndog609]

Many states require basic safety and emission inspections.

True, but not all states and, specifically addressing my post, my County Clerk doesn't care if my car is up on blocks with the engine removed and the windshield busted.

 

[RespectTradition]

Now I might be the one being wrong but just on the face of it having one party hand over a baby to another party for financial compensation and calling it "selling parental rights" as opposed to "sale of a child" looks to be making one really, really fine distinction.

Depends. Do you think parents own their children?

 

[PKT_VOL]

Of course, Wittgenstein was just another philosopher that never did anything (aside from winning countless medals for bravery, courage, and valor in WWI)...

Gotta admit, I know next to nothing about 20th century philosophy outside of Karl Popper (one of favorites). Just did a brief wiki inquiry, seems like Wittgenstein lived quite the life. He seems like quite the character from his dark family history, lack of writings, service during WWI, job during WWII, and his strange relationship with University of Cambridge.