Sunday 10 January 2010

If it saves one child....

Argument;
"If these measures save only one child, it's worth it."

Response;
"Not if it harms a hundred others in the process it isn't."

I will not sacrifice my own living, breathing, growing, very real children at the altar of some hypothetical child who may or may not be 'saved' by measures based on such fear and mistrust and suspicion that they will thereby damage my children in ways that are impossible to calculate by forcing these things into their young lives via their own homes, the one place they should be able to feel safe and protected, over the protestations of their parents, the people they should be able to look to for comfort and support, and their own wishes, which should always be taken into account by those who claim to care for them. I will not stand by and watch my own children being harmed in the vague hope that by allowing it to happen to them it may stop harm to another.

One hypothetical life is not worth two real ones. Certainly not my two. One is definitely not a hundred, and above all one is not worth the thousands of real people whose lives would really be affected by the Children, Schools and Families bill.



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