I’m no lawyer, but I don’t see how that applies, since any person would exclude parents too. And the original discussion focused on a spanking that would be allowed for a parent but not a pseudo step parent.
I rest my case.
Dio’s recollections of his personal experiences are always automatically universalized. I think it’s in the constitution.
I would love to see you rest a case, any case.
Cite?
Then why in God’s name do you hold on to and grasp every single thing you say like it’s gospel for fear that backing down on one of those hyperbolic statements means declaring defeat? If you’d stop pulling shit like that, you’d encounter 80% less hostility.
As far as I know there haven’t been any changes. I haven’t read anything about corporal punishment without parental consent being legalized in schools or day care centers.
Note the qualifying language “…cruel and inhuman corporal punishment or an injury resulting in a traumatic condition…” does not mean any physical punishment whatsoever. It means only that which would be considered cruel and inhuman, or that which inflicts injury resulting in a traumatic condition. A traditional spanking probably isn’t enough to trigger that statute.
And I didn’t read anything about schools or day care centers in the original OP.
Funny, that.
Sorry, I dislike Dio’s posting style as much as the next person, but this is really poor logic. You did a “brief search”, couldn’t find anything, so you drew absolute conclusions based on a legal precedent in schools in states that allow corporal punishment?
What’s the difference? A babysitter is a babysitter.
Do I annoy you enough that you have me blocked? No, wait you answered one of my posts…
If I may, “strong” is not precisely the quality of your opinions that is to blame for your role as perennial whipping boy.
More likely suspects are “hastily formed,” “ill-considered,” “brashly announced,” “exasperatingly inflexible,” and “obstinately defended.”
A clever person would perhaps take this as a cue to stop posting hyperbolic “facts” that are based entirely on their own limited experience and then refusing to believe any contrary evidence including other people with directly contradictory experiences.
My opinions are not ill-considered.
In your opinion.
Maybe, but their expression IS. Which you admitted to.
Yeah they are. And they are almost always wrong. Especially about law. Remember how you argued with me that the Flag Code is not law…even after I cited the statute? Things like that piss people off. And really make you look bad. You repeat the same pattern of behavior over and over, so now you are reaping what you’ve sown.
Hey, it’s a message board. Bricker’s got to charge for anything more than a “brief search.”
Actually this brings up a great point. Is it any better for someone to discuss legal advice and/or issues just because they’re a lawyer, or used to be a lawyer? Can a real-estate lawyer discuss constitutional law?
Or maybe…just maybe…and I know this is crazy, bear with me–terms like “legal right” shouldn’t be thrown around at all when we don’t know all the facts of a situation? Or case law shouldn’t be thrown around when we don’t even know what state the situation is occurring in? I dunno. But you’re right, it does seem like sometimes legalese gets thrown around pretty easily on this board.
Corporal punishment in school is legal in 21 states.
For the record.
You can take this as criticism, insult or advise. Diogenes the Cynic, you are the most prolifically obstinate poster on all the Dope and many if not most long time posters think your pattern of arguing and nearly never admitting you are wrong makes you look like a joke.
I don’t really care much, I don’t spend any time arguing with you usually but you really might want to take it down a notch or I think you can expect to still have many poster continue to distrust what you say and not bother to engage you.