This is why people should have to have a licence to be a parent
Just to be allowed to breath valuable air perhaps?
@FrayedBear
People have the right to life, the essentials of life liberty and that is all.
Most else is optional depending on how much effort you are willing to put in.
However
There is no right to be ignorant, stupid or to be a danger to other people.?
@LenHazell53 I am misunderstood I think. I omitted the "And" from the start of my comment!
Regarding ignorance and stupidity: intelligence and education are partly arbiters in determining the amount of ignorance and stupidity of anyone. Not everyone is born with high IQ or the opportunity to gain education and sometimes the education given, as in my own case at high school, can be totally incompetent because of systemic or individual ignorance, stupidity and danger by government education and individual teachers.
@FrayedBear
No I understand what you are saying but in my opinion, Ignorance, stupidity and dangerous negligence have nothing to do with education or even potential intelligence.
I have known highly educated people who are utter idiots, they have all the knowledge in the world and still be utterly negligent, ignorant of good manners, socially acceptable behaviour and general common sense.
Contrarily my best friend of 30 years finished school with no qualification whatsoever was told he would never amount to anything and spent much of his working life in a bathroom fittings warehouse.
At thirty six he was a successful self educated writer, went to college, then university and by the time of his death at the age of 52 was a doctor of literature, a professor of Critical theory and a successful script doctor of film and television scripts, play write and creative writing teacher.
This is why I say no one has the right to be the sort of ignorant, negligent, unthinking idiot who would leave a 7 year old home alone in a high rise with the window unlocked.
That sort of behaviour take a special kind of self indulgent moron.
I agree with your comments on the standards of education, and teaching, which again I think proves my point as I was moved from one school to another twice a years every year while growing up, I can say in all honesty, 90% of my education came from myself, from reading, studying and almost living in public libraries from the age of 11 and yet I was still stupid enough to be ensnared by religious indoctrination until the age of almost thirty.
@LenHazell53 Len, I was badly let down at high school and ended up gaining my professional qualifications through correspondence schools and my own denial of the things that people normally do in their twenties. Sadly my chosen profession turned out to be as honourable as Rachmann was to decent landlords. Fortunately for me the religious association of my high school with the church I was confirmed into quickly destroyed any belief that I may have been inclined to.
That last step is a doozie
I thought that it was a hand / arm grasp?
@FrayedBear I didn't have time to read the article
@zorialoki S'funny, I thought that I watched a video but that was at least 24 hours ago.
How did he know that the boy was about to fall?
I think he was calling to him to let go
@LenHazell53 I didn't hear that on the cellphone speaker.