I have been a “lurker” forever,and I don’t know why this silly conversation bothered me enough to actually register…
Do you realize that you are not actually having a conversation? You are talking AT each other?
zahavasdad and WIY – no one here is trying to say that anyone should be allowed to abuse children! They are saying that IF YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO TAKE SICK PEOPLE INTO ACCOUNT, then it would be a positive, healthy thing for people to be able to show APPROPRIATE affection to a small child.
That IN A WORLD WHERE PEOPLE BEHAVE AS THEY SHOULD, it would benefit children to be hugged or have their cheek pinched by their teacher.
Iced is not talking about the people who take advantage of that right and of children’s innocence to do terrible things.
By your line of reason, even a child’s parents should not be allowed to hug them, because some people abuse that right.
No one here was advocating abusing children. Iced was lamenting the fact that the world has deteriorated to a point where in order to protect our children, laws and rules have been instated.
As a result, some perfectly innocent expressions of love for our children are lost. And our kids lose out on some potential character-building from that.