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The United States is a massively sexually repressed nation. It's illegal in almost all of the country for two consenting adults to have sex and exchange money for it.
And you're "very conservative"?
So maybe you'd like 10 year olds to have sex?The United States is a massively sexually repressed nation. It's illegal in almost all of the country for two consenting adults to have sex and exchange money for it. If you're consenting homosexual adults, you're not allowed to marry in most of the country. Many states have unreasonably high age of consent laws.
So lewd behavior control makes us an oppressed nation?In most of Australia and many European nations it's 16. In the United States we have some states that make consent the ridiculously high age of 17 or even 18. Some states (for example, Nebraska) pass laws forbidding a stripper from touching any of her patrons. I had to get a job across the border in Iowa to continue to please my customers the way I'm capable of. What man wants a lap dance where she's not allowed to sit on his lap? There are some countries that are less sexually free than we are (Iran for example), but most countries in Europe are much, much freer than we are in this regard.
So society shouldn't bestow certain privileges based on maturity and responsibility? Should we put 5 year olds in the military?In the US you can't even legally have a drink until you're 21. The drinking age used to be left up to each state to decide until the Big Brother Federal Government lead by Ronald Religion blackmailed all states into increasing it to 21 by threatening to withhold Federal highway funds.
And the government has done a better job with your money?Our other government (or perhaps more accurately our real government), the corporations, are much too powerful in the United States. The banks can irresponsibly waste depositor money on risky investments and then get bailed out by taxpayers. Then they have the gall to use some of that money to pay million dollar bonuses to the fat cats who caused the problem.
It's called voluntary cooperation.It's not just the government that can restrict your freedoms. Corporations can too. You can work for a corporation that forces you to sign under the guise of a non-disclosure agreement and agreement that infringes on your free speech rights, one that applies even after you no longer work for them. Then you have to stomach and keep your mouth shut about any and all immoral behavior that the crooks running the place do. So much for the First Amendment.
Um some of them already are having sex and no no one mentioned 10yr olds and just because its the law doesn't mean it wouldn't happen.So maybe you'd like 10 year olds to have sex?
Lewd behavior? How is there anything lewd about paying for sex. It happens and it should be legal to do so. Also I don't think too many Americans' are moral people. If you did have morals shouldn't one of those morals be to live and let live?So lewd behavior control makes us an oppressed nation?
I think you just don't get it, like most conservatives. It's not about age that makes you mature and responsible its about upbringing.So society shouldn't bestow certain privileges based on maturity and responsibility? Should we put 5 year olds in the military?
That's a good euphemism.It's called voluntary cooperation.
So maybe you'd like 10 year olds to have sex?
So lewd behavior control makes us an oppressed nation?
So society shouldn't bestow certain privileges based on maturity and responsibility? Should we put 5 year olds in the military?
And the government has done a better job with your money?
It's called voluntary cooperation.
This is an interesting point. I know, through complete factual evidence, that America is one of the largest, most diverse, modern and strong economies on the planet that has ever been, and one of the freest and open societies in our history. The opposition by many EU supporters seems to be the argument that Europe, or at least the EU, could actually be the largest and most diverse economy in the world, with a better economic model, should the EU become a republic or a federal state structure in the future. They also claim EU politics is better, that there market economy is better and more stable, and regardless of how false or true these statements are, can they use the argument that the EU is a "freer", better place to live?
Any place where the right to bear arms is so egregiously and consistently violated cannot be called "free", not by any stretch of the imagination.
Europe has more diversity than the US as far as freedom goes, so the question isn't really applicable. Some European nations have more freedom, some have less.
I understand Americans have a special relationship with their fire arms. That's a matter for them. I don't think many people in the EU see owning a gun as having anything to do with fundamental freedom. Guns for hunting and guns for sport seem innocuous enough to me provided they are properly stored and used. Hand guns and assault weapons are pretty much illegal in most EU states and I find that a comfort. I think that if you had a referendum on the subject, which is unlikely as no one seems to be remotely interested in the topic, you'd find that most Europeans would vote against the right to carry hand guns and assault weapons.
This is no reflection whatsoever on what Americans choose to do, that's their business, but it's an area of quite clear cultural distinction between over here and over there.
Really? Doesn't EU have a 48 hours max week? Limiting the maximum working week to 48 hours
Doesn't France Have the 35 hours per week?
35-hour workweek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most countries in Europe do have a limit on how many hours you are allowed to work, normally around 37.5-40. It's only UK where employees can choose to work as many hours as they want. Who are to decide how many hours I want to work? Not only is it a huge breach into our liberties, but it is completly economically unsound.
50-75% is given to the government. For instance France I would say is the most taxed country in EU.
They have a payrol tax of 45%. They have a income tax from 0-48%. They also have GST of 19%. If we add these taxes togheter, an high income person will be taxed 77%. A low income person (less than 7000 dollar per year) would get 55% tax, and I haven't included wealth taxes, petrol taxes, TV-tax, Housing tax, and property taxes, which takes even more of your income. Welfare Lessons from France | Michael D. Tanner | Cato Institute: Daily Commentary
I personally see the very real threat to free speech in Europe as a more serious offence than not being able to own guns. Do you?
It depends what you mean by "the very real threat". Which particular threat are you referring to? The fact that EU legislation falls very far short of constraining member states to practice identical free speech laws means that on this matter at least, you can't talk about Europe in general.
There have been a few examples of worrying cases of censorship. A magazine was closed temporarily and two journalists fined for publishing insulting cartoons of the Crown Prince of Spain and his wife. British libel laws become more anachronistic every day. Any legal recourse that is only available to the very wealthy is no recourse at all, in my book.
What other concerns were you referring to?
Tourists could face prosecution for taking holiday snaps of London's sights, police said today.
The Metropolitan Police Federation has joined a protest against an anti-terror law making it a potential offence to photograph police guarding London's landmarks.
More than 150 people protested outside New Scotland Yard today at the law which makes it an offence to publish or communicate information on members of the armed forces, intelligence services and police officers which is "likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism".
Peter Smyth, chairman of the federation, said: "This is open to wide interpretation or, rather, misinterpretation.
"How, for example, will it be expected to apply in practice to the 2012 Olympics, which will be both a photo-event par excellence and subject to an intense security operation?
"Are going to be rounded up and arrested en masse for taking suspicious photos?"
Well we could start with their ban of books like Mein Kampf in the Netherlands, Austria - and the recent laws making it illegal to photograph public buildings in the UK. I must admit that this is how I read the implications of the law but I could be wrong. Also, the European stance on "hate speech" is quite ridiculous. Sending people to jail for speaking out against Muslim expansion or sending Muslims to jail for hate speech is quite worrying.
I think this is my main one :
Police protest over terror law ban on holiday snaps | News
The UK is a leading member of the EU and my concern would be that some of the newer members will try to imitate the already draconian laws to be more accepted by the rest of the European continent.
Police protest over terror law ban on holiday snaps | News
The UK is a leading member of the EU and my concern would be that some of the newer members will try to imitate the already draconian laws to be more accepted by the rest of the European continent.
but not everywhere thinks thats a right, here in Australia we figured it wasnt a right when someone went on a massacre in Tasmania.
guns are for people that need them, military, police, farmers, not your average joe blow
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