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in reply to a message by Mar
"I do have a problem with naming your child Banana... and their are names that just aren't names (like Table or Cholera)."
How many children have you actually encountered named "Banana"? Or "Cholera"? Just because somebody MIGHT give their child an absurd name does not justify any government's pre-emptive strike in the legislating of naming children.
Furthermore, while you congratulate yourself on not having a problem with "out of the ordinary" names, you neglect the fact that those whom you would blindly empower with making the decisions as to what is or is not "acceptable" might be likely to find a number of those entries on YOUR "personal names list" to be absurd or cacophonous and, therefore, illegal to name your child.
More government "protection" = less FREEDOM for all. Here in the U.S. we already have the goddamn Patriot Act -- we don't need an additional, goddamn Patronymic Act.
As for people getting "offended" over other people's personal names (NAMES, of all things, for crapsake), I have no patience whatsoever for such damn silly people. Political correctness is the security blanket for tiresome, small minds.
-- Nanaea
How many children have you actually encountered named "Banana"? Or "Cholera"? Just because somebody MIGHT give their child an absurd name does not justify any government's pre-emptive strike in the legislating of naming children.
Furthermore, while you congratulate yourself on not having a problem with "out of the ordinary" names, you neglect the fact that those whom you would blindly empower with making the decisions as to what is or is not "acceptable" might be likely to find a number of those entries on YOUR "personal names list" to be absurd or cacophonous and, therefore, illegal to name your child.
More government "protection" = less FREEDOM for all. Here in the U.S. we already have the goddamn Patriot Act -- we don't need an additional, goddamn Patronymic Act.
As for people getting "offended" over other people's personal names (NAMES, of all things, for crapsake), I have no patience whatsoever for such damn silly people. Political correctness is the security blanket for tiresome, small minds.
-- Nanaea
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