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reptoid
I think you'll find that in most developed countries the education of a child is the legal responsibility of the parent whether this education takes place at a school or within the home is another matter. I think you just proved my point re: vaccinations.
The parent's responsibility, yes. The State, no. There is a difference.
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reptoid
Actually the state can and does punish you for be lazy... it's generally termed "neglect".
That's not punishment, that's a result. For example, we have floods because the State neglect improving proper waste disposals and drainage systems and would rather issue laws that are not real solutions. Instead of spending people's taxes on infrastructures that benefit us all including nature.
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reptoid
You're taking an extreme stance for the sake of argument. Who said that trees are more important than your children's rights? How is you paying a few pesos and making a journey to plant a tree in a newly created national park destroying your children's future to the point that you would make them live in a desert? Sounds a bit crazy to be honest bro.
You miss the idea of that statement. My point is that this bill is never about the environment, it is about the government tinkering with people's lives and infringing their personal rights. ABSOLUTE CONTROL.
Of course they cannot tell you this plainly or directly because no man who values his liberty will allow it.
So the State has to cover it up with noble-sounding causes like Health and Environment to win the approval of the masses.
The State has declared war on obesity, cigarettes, even food rich in sugar and fat. People are being dictated which food and how much food they should eat. Instead of educating people like what they do in Alcoholics Anonymous they just criminalize everything and in the process those who smoke in public are now criminals.
Lets not allow the State to THINK FOR US. Let us not allow ourselves to become drones devoid of common sense and individual responsibility. Which is why I used the desert as a metaphor as better place to live than in a garden society where it looks beautiful on the outside but its people on the inside are subservient to a totalitarian State.
I suggest reading Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley materials, Ayn Rand, Voltaire and articles about personal freedoms and big-government.