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Well, what’s he saying? Kids aged seven should be aware of being a boy or a girl and the differences between them, considering their friendships with other children and have learned not to hit people when they’re feeling angry or upset. It all seems perfectly reasonable. You did pass key stage one, didn’t you, Pete?
Oh, I know: If it’s in The Mail, it’s usually errant, rabid nonsense.
It’s actually quite rewarding to flick through the links. I don’t know what sort of publication the Canadian rag is, but there’s a rising spectrum of hysterical reporting from the reasonably sober Thunderer article through to the mad eyed Mail one. I don’t know quite what lesson to draw from it.
Do you often believe what you read in The Mail, then? If so, I owe you an apology. You’re quite right to be so angry all the time. The world must seem quite awful.
Not really. You see the link to The Thunderer that you post contains the paragraph,
He insisted, however, that very young children would not be given sexually explicit lessons. “We are not talking about five-year-olds being taught about sex . . . What we are talking about in Key Stage 1 [when children are aged 5 to 7] is children learning about themselves, their differences, their friendships, how to manage their feelings,” he said.
Not exactly how to put a condom on, is it?
Ah, The Daily Mail. That won’t turn out to be something perfectly sensible that’s been blown out of all proportion, then. Not something in The Mail. You can tell it’s honest, straightforward journalism at a glance. For a start, if The Mail had made it up, it would have had something about immigrants in it.
I’ll bet that’s a nasty bite. You should be ashamed, Pete. She seems just like anyone’s mum.
I’m not. I’m mocking to make sure my children’s faces don’t get eaten by a mangy old fox. It’s still working, by the way. Did stand on a rake at one point, though. I suppose you can call that a minor remise for fox kind.
I’m definitely getting one. Once I secure a really fuck off sized ruby, a swimming pool full of sharks and the security codes for NORAD’s secret project L.I.O.N.O.F.J.U.D.A.H., my plans for world domination will finally be complete.
No. Only if it comes down to a swap. Which it shouldn’t. It is just a thought experiment that lets myself gauge the relative importance of fox life to human life. I expect you have a different answer. If the great god Thoughtexperimentasmodeus visited you one night and said I am going to kill x amount of foxes or one of your children or grandchildren, you decide or I kill all foxes and all of your family, what would the value of x be before you couldn’t conscience swapping that many for the life of one of your children or grandchildren?
For me, the value of x is infinite. I don’t want to seem uncaring, I’m just being honest. If I admit that, then I couldn’t conscience killing anyone on the basis of their fox murdering activities since I’ve effectively decided that one human life is of more value to me than all the foxes ever.
