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Skraxx

(2,977 posts)
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 08:57 PM Sep 2013

What You Do To Your Kids Is None of My Business, Unless

I see you harming them physically. Then all bets are off, and I will intervene, consequences be damned. And its not me spanking a bad child, its me intervening to stop an adult who should know better from further, immediate harm upon an innocent.

IMO the same principles apply to international relations. Lines are drawn every day as to what is acceptabe behavior and what is not. You physically abuse your child in my presence, I will intervene, physically and forcably if necessary. The international community has decided the line is chemical weapons. That line is theoretically debatable, but it is what it is.

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What You Do To Your Kids Is None of My Business, Unless (Original Post) Skraxx Sep 2013 OP
Do you beat the shit out of the kid or kill them too? Hassin Bin Sober Sep 2013 #1
commendable but Skittles Sep 2013 #2
Generally speaking it doesn't, though people sure love claiming that. (nt) Posteritatis Sep 2013 #3
Not Necessarily My Responsibility to Stop You Beating Your Kid Skraxx Sep 2013 #4
Are you now on your way to personally administer a thrashing to the scoundrel? Tierra_y_Libertad Sep 2013 #5

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
1. Do you beat the shit out of the kid or kill them too?
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 08:59 PM
Sep 2013

Or maybe their little brother gets a few errant kicks to the head?

Skittles

(153,164 posts)
2. commendable but
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 08:59 PM
Sep 2013

if it's an international community then why does it fall on only America to take action?

Skraxx

(2,977 posts)
4. Not Necessarily My Responsibility to Stop You Beating Your Kid
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 09:15 PM
Sep 2013

But if I see it happening I will stop you nonetheless.

 

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
5. Are you now on your way to personally administer a thrashing to the scoundrel?
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 09:21 PM
Sep 2013

Will you announce "Mission Accomplished" after the fact?

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