Oh, a meme. The indignity.

[davywavy]

Busier than expected this morning, so I thought I'd hand you all an opportunity on a plate*: I would like anyone and everyone who reads this to post in here something they would like to do with me someday.

Then post this in your journal to find out what people want to do with you.

<sup>* I swear, I couldn't make it any worse for myself if I painted a target on my back, could I?

[EDIT: I have turned off IP logging.]</sup>

Comments

Re: Get some red paint and a shot gun....

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Death penalty-wise, I tend to feel that it is a mark of civilisation that you don't kill people unless you really, really have to; it actually demonstrates moral superiority and confidence in our society that we don't. there is now no death penalty at all in this country - Blunkett quietly repealed it (the last three crimes you could be killed for were high treason, Sabotage in Her majesty's Dockyards, and Piracy on the High Seas), but at the same time he has massively raised the number of crimes you can be imprised for and criminalised a lot of formerly law abiding citizens without then changing their way of life - I find this form of expansionist government abhorrent.

There's a lot to be said for a benefits system, although I'd prefer a Workfare system (one which actually did away with the poverty trap at about £10 as well, which nobody seems to really care about). However, there has to be something catastrophically wrong with a system that costs £100,000 a year to keep kids in care when the very best schools in the country can do the same job for £40k and give them a better education at the same time. Not that I'm suggesting private enterprise can do better, oh no, there's no examples of that are there?

And no, having grown up just outside Barnsley I cannot imagine an aromatherapist thriving there.

Re: Get some red paint and a shot gun....

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

Death Penalty: David Blunkett and our nice Congressmen/wo have done a lovely job of imprisoning people for minor, petty offences that aren't antisocial, which I find completely abhorrent. As far as I can tell, the social theory behind imprisonment, from its base seems to be founded on serious antisocial behavior that has serious consequences. Violence, invasion of house, murder are all things that have a quantifiable emotional or financial cost. The use of P2P programs, spitting on the streets or littering don't necessarily have a quantifiable objective social or financial cost.

It is a superiority issue for killing the evil fuckers but how much of our social worth are we to exchange for keeping the violent criminals in a state if limbo? There are no options for rehabilitation for a small percentage of the severely emotionally disturbed. Instead, society has to support abberant behavior for decades in the form of a prison? Morally superior or not, I say cut the fat!

I think this is going into social contract territory... ;)

I agree completely, public education seems to be thwarted with comfortable red tape. 100,000 a year for public education? I suspect much of that has to do with the creation of certain 'necessary' positions over the years that have now grown obsolete or inconsequential. Education systems don't seem to respond very quickly to changing social need.

Re: Get some red paint and a shot gun....

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

By 'in care' I mean kids taken away from their parents (or orphans) and kept at state expense - fed, housed, clothed, educated etc. Eton does the same job, just £60k cheaper...

Re: Get some red paint and a shot gun....

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

That makes me laugh, especially since they're trying to get the public sector to extend their opening hours....