In view that you are not suppossed to smack your children some idiot the other day said that putting your child in a pram or car seat with restraints(belts) could be called child abuse if not done for safety reasons.
I know one mum that put her toddler in the car for ten mins as a punishment for being naughty and also a paramedic was carpeted after a parent complained when he cuddled her child after an accident,Has common sense flown out the window.
2007-02-21 00:17:41 · 70 answers · asked by Francis7 4 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
By the way I live in the UK.
2007-02-21 00:18:15 · update #1
Yes the lefty brigade has gone over the top.One good thing..political correctness is not the law..you can go against it..I do.I'm politically incorrect and proud of it.
I will NEVER call a woman Ms..she is either Miss or Mrs.
I call a fireman a fireman,a firewoman a firewoman.
I hate the word 'chairperson.'
If enough of us rebel against it..it will soon peter out.
A reasonable smack teaches a child a lesson, he will learn not to be naughty.You can't reason with young children..spare the rod and spoil the child.
Remember..no-one is condoning the physical abuse of children.
common sense should tell anyone were the line is.
Kids in school should n't be shouted at in case it traumatises them..diddums.You must not hit a burglar who is threatening you in your own house..it violates HIS human rights.
Criminals are caught on camera..in the process of commiting a crime,but their faces must n't be shown on TV or on posters.Why??...you've got it ..it violates their human rights.Pretty soon it will be illegal to jail murderers as it will violate their human rights to be free.
WE MUST NOT LET THIS FARCE GET OUT OF HAND!!!!
2007-02-21 11:28:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Who invented the idiotic words Political Correctness anyway.
I agree with many other peoples views here. Perhaps! If the someone who invented the phrase, you know the one who had nothing better to do; then perhaps this Country would be a much nicer place to be at the moment.
What was wrong with how things were back in the 50's lets say, when children, and grown ups for that matter didn't swear like troopers in every sentence they spoke. That if the kids did anything wrong in the streets they were actually afraid of the Policeman who walked the beat in case they got clipped around the earhole. And the biggest thing of all was that there was a deterrent for people who did do evil things, because they thought twice, or at least most of the wrongdoers did, as there was corporal punishment.
The Governments of our times, are to blame in some respect, and the dogooders, as they are too mamby pamby and soft on people who have no respect.
The whole British Isles has gone to pot.
2007-02-21 06:23:30 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In addition to your other answers, I have noticed that this Government has passed many new laws with regard to regulation.
Two examples - the Police can't have a quiet 'off the record' chat with someone as they once could, it all has to go down on a form, thus creating more paperwork, time, and 'formalising' everything. Why not just trust them to use their own discretion, and bring to book the very few that abuse this?
Farmers now have to have a 'farm plan'. What's the point? What happens if a farmer changes his plans? More time-wasting form-filling. One farmer applied for a permit of some kind and found himself with 19 pages of forms to complete! Why not just let people get on with their jobs?
Then there's Europe, all those silly new laws... the Telegraph has a whole page about them every weekend. Example - it has come to light that there is lead in pipe organs. Shock horror! Lead is bad. We must ban it. Cue small manufacturers put out of business; churches can't get their organs repaired. Has anyone stopped to think how this nonsensical law is affecting us? Is it in fact necessary or even desirable to protect us from the hazard that is lead in pipe organs?
It would all be funny if it wasn't such a bl**dy crime.
2007-02-21 08:48:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Common sense has flown out of the window. You can't do anything for fear of the health and safety police coming and getting you. I read that someone suggested cutting down palm trees in Torquay in case they were blown over in a storm! That is utter madness and they have been there for years. What, do we cut down all trees in public places or put a fence around them? It's not child abuse to put belts as restraints on children especially when they are in the pram during shopping, because little ones like to lean foward and try to take things off the shelf. We can't do anything now and I'd say a cake baked by the WI would be cleaner than some of our MRSA infected hospitals. Councils say they won't put up Christmas decorations for fear of them falling down, but I can't recall an accident being reported in any national paper. What about calling Christmas a Winter Festival for fear of offending other religions? This is a national holiday celebrated for years and the UK is a Christian country, so how dare they try to rename it! Bonfires being banned on Guy Fawkes' night, lessons on how to put things correctly on your desk and drug addicts saying it's wrong for them not to be allowed drugs in prison and being allowed to sue! It's utter madness nowadays and the government has created a society which is far too PC.
2007-02-21 05:22:32 · answer #4 · answered by star 2 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Its a cliche, but sometimes the least common sense is common sense. Our legislators and unelected do-gooders are attempting to create a nanny state where people are denied the opportunity to think and act in ways that seem reasonable to them and their peers. Its a sad fact that in a very recent survey the perceived quality of life for young people was lowest in the UK and USA, being two of the most affluent societies in the Western world, so clearly state interference is not working in creating a better climate for young people. And of course in the UK in the last few weeks we have had three teenagers murdered, and the consensus among the chattering classes is that a lack of parental control, specifically a male role model, is part of the cause. And yet, as the questioner notes, parental control is being eroded. Go figure.
The flip side is that many policies which are considered mainstream were PC in their day - and it took far sighted liberals to challenge the status quo. Anyone for slavery, or putting poor people in the workhouse?
It seems to me that a government that has lost the ability to make major decisions to change people's lives for the better has lost the ability to do so, and so to do something fiddles with things best left to the individual.
2007-02-21 10:00:39 · answer #5 · answered by Richard C 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes...PC has gone totally mad.....The UK has become such a nanny state that people can no longer use their own common sense but must follow the stupid rules set out by some pen pushing do-gooder who is way out of touch with the real world.
I mean, talk about over protection.? Schools banning snowball fights in case some one gets hit with a snow ball, banning sports days in case the losers feel rejected and need counselling in later life.
Climbing trees for conkers is now a no no in case someone falls and sues someone else.
What a state the UK is in since it began being controlled by the do-gooders,(aka civil liberties).
The UK is in danger of collapsing into the sea and no-one has grown a spine to stop it from happening.
2007-02-21 06:55:50 · answer #6 · answered by blissman 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Though it has nothing to do with Political Correctness, in my view ill treatment of children is indefensible. That doesn't mean you shouldn't smack them or punish them in other ways - properly delivered these things are not ill treatment. A smack or being sent to bed early etc. etc. are quite in order but fastening a child in a car is definitely unsafe and foolish.
To answer your question - yes PC has gone much too far and though I am not anti any of them, it is also heavily biased in favour of ethnic minorities, imigrants, black people, sexual deviants, homosexuals etc.
Our attitude to Health and Safety is another matter over which we have gone crazy. Interestingly it is rarely Health and Safety Regulations that stops or restricts the stupid things we hear of. The regulations mostly just advise reasonable and appropriate caution and protection - either by physical barriers or education. The problems are caused by idiotic interpretation of the regulations and fear of being sued by this litigeous society!
2007-02-21 05:49:41 · answer #7 · answered by RICHARD G 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
YES!!! here's my ramblings---
What would our world be like if our Founding Fathers were in the correctness world of today?!!!
Paul Revere would be labled "cruel"to his horse! The Boston Tea Party would be a lawsuit from tea shippers and environmentalists! The Minutemen would be shot by the FBI and ATF! The Declaration would never have been signed because John Hancock didn't want to offend anyone that spoke "proper" english!
The state of Indiana wants it to be a felony to spank your child. And a $1000 fine to smoke in your car with a child present. Never mind that Indiana has child restraint laws for vehicles and you can always see kids jumping around in cars wherever you travel!
My 8 year old daughter is being denied a proper education in school because teachers are not allowed to correct kids that disrupt the classroom.
Imagine what things will be like when kids of preschool age of today are of adult age. Kinda scary huh?!
2007-02-21 00:49:13 · answer #8 · answered by gittit 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
It's not PC its the 'Human Rights' brigade.
They are the ones who screamed 'child abuse' for smacking (parent) and caning (teacher) 'sex abuse' if an unrelated person so much as touches a child.
They are also the ones who demand that the criminal be treated with respect and given better treatment than the victim!
Common sense is not a part of their mind set!
Show signs of having any and you are regarded as naive or old-fashioned!
How can a generation of people brought up without discipline learn how to discipline others? Everything seems to be seen as harmful to the childs developement and parents are threatened by their children (I know one 11 year old who regularly threatens to phone social services > his threatened punishment is the removal of his TV and Computer)
How bad do things have to get before they realise that society can't function without discipline?
2007-02-21 10:17:56 · answer #9 · answered by willowGSD 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The country has lost it's bottle we live too well and have grown into a nation of self centred debt ridden muppets and most would accept any restriction these interfering bstards put on us, we just laugh and shrug at these silly ideas if it doesn't affect us at the time, and the idiotical pc brigade love it as slowly but surely they put another restriction on our speech or family values, black/white which one is offensive?? ok some are sensible like the no smoking ban, but you put all these petty laws together and put them all into action, then see what you can really do without breaking one?? you'll bring down the wrath of a dictatorship! and a nation of snoopers they even have neighbour watching neighbour and here's tae yur future prisoner 2100 yur on the central computer .... and we're watching youuuuuuuuu!!
2007-02-21 06:42:26 · answer #10 · answered by richiesown 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋