Atheism?

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FLETCH2

Monday, February 12, 2007 8:32 PM

Last time I checked that activity was illegal in England. In theory since assault is a crime prescribed by statute and since you can't give someone permission to break the law, you can't consent to have another person strike you. There was a famous case in the early 1990's that in effect make SM activities illegal in the UK though apparently not sports like boxing where you actually have a chance of killing someone.

CITIZEN

Monday, February 12, 2007 8:43 PM

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Originally posted by Fletch2:
Last time I checked that activity was illegal in England. In theory since assault is a crime prescribed by statute and since you can't give someone permission to break the law, you can't consent to have another person strike you. There was a famous case in the early 1990's that in effect make SM activities illegal in the UK though apparently not sports like boxing where you actually have a chance of killing someone.

Sooo, it's okay for me to hit you as long as hitting you doesn't turn me on?

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

FLETCH2

Monday, February 12, 2007 8:54 PM

I believe the exact legal definition is that it is illegal for any person to hit any other person for any reason, since the laws against GBH and common assault don't require a complainant.

HOWEVER the police have broad authority to ignore that under certain circumstances, such as if the incident were an accident, related to a sporting event or if the proscution of the event would realy on the testimony of an uncooperative witness (like most domestic disputes.)

In the case in question the police chose to prosecute all participants at a gay S&M meeting under statute.

So yes, in practice, you only get proscuted if the other party likes being hit.

Go Fig.

ANTHONYT

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 2:39 AM

Seven and Frem,

There is a problem with all of your arguing about teachers and students and parents and schools and ritalin.

You are both quite correct.

There are places where Frem's view of the school system is utterly correct. Where schools 'suggest' ritalin and crush creativity and teach sanitized crap and all that jazz.

And there are places where parents use ritalin and ADD disorders to excuse their kids misbehavior and they nail teachers to 'allow creative expression' to protect their kids' goofing off, and where violence and disorder have become so rampant that conformity is a much needed skill and safety net.

And sometimes these places exist in the same state, or town, or even school.

The school system experience is a varied one, and just about every complaint at both ends of the spectrum is true for someone.

I remember my own school experience, and I am now witnessing the experience of my son. I can tell you that you are both completely correct, and it literally does turn 180 degrees from one classroom to the next. Any argument about the merits and flaws of our schools is doomed in that it addresses millions of people with general statements, when in fact we are dealing with millions of individual situations, in all their individual flavor.

We would really need to make every school, every teacher, every student, and every parent a 100% conformist with one way of doing things before we could make sweeping statements about the nature of education in this country.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, July 30, 2024 11:06 PM

Britbongistan finally does something correct?

the tax payer funded BBC claims he was arrested for 'speech'

when it seems to be the fact he was involved with a terror group

banned terror group al-Muhajiroun, has been jailed for life

So what is the plan there is no 'Death Penalty' they won't feed him pork...it will just cost the tax payer and he will convert other criminals in the jail house?

Anjem Choudary

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, October 14, 2024 4:48 PM

as a movement Western Atheism seems to have jumped the shark

Why are Atheists such cowards when it comes to calling out the Koranimal jihadi islamics

Sharia Law Begins to Restrict Women in Swat Valley

https://www.christiantoday.com.au/news/sharia-law-begins-to-restrict-w
omen-in-swat-valley.html

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, January 1, 2025 8:10 PM

Germany: ‘Mecca Security’ was hired to protect Magdeburg Christmas Market, left 6-meter gap between traffic barriers

https://jihadwatch.org/2025/01/germany-mecca-security-was-hired-to-pro
tect-magdeburg-christmas-market-left-6-meter-gap-between-traffic-barriers

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, January 13, 2025 6:37 PM

maybe it could fix Yemen?

In case people don’t remember the Houthi slogan on their official flag

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1878627292571951206#m

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