Posted: Mar 03, 2010 2:38 am
Grimstad wrote:I gotta say, I didn't expect that much of a respense from my comment. I see it like this. Like so many other topics that society struggles with, even though we may not like the end result of decisions we make, they are still OUR personal decisions. It is not the role of the state to make these decisions for us. Abuses will ALWAYS occur. We must have mechanisms in place to deal with these abuses as they occur but we can never allow others to make these decisions for us.
So you disagree with the need for drivers licenses? If not, then why doesn't the above logic apply? 'Car accidents will always happen but people need to be free to make these mistakes, with mechanisms in place to deal with the accidents as they occur'..?
Taking care of a dog, or a child, requires a lot more training than learning how to drive a car and the potential for damage is arguably much greater than that of a car. So it seems absurd to me that we require people to get drivers licenses but send new parents off into the world without any training in how to raise their kid, or expecting new pet owners to automatically know the laws of behaviors and know how to raise an animal...