To MrEdd
Re: “Similarly you personally should stop advocating that nuns and Jews be burned in pile in the street. Really, it’s offensive equalitybeforethelaw.” “We know you say that because you don’t like hair and the Nazis wore short hair.”
Response: Huh? MrEdd, I really think you have me confused with someone else or are yourself confused. I spoke of “self expression” versus “self mastery”, two concepts on the same continum. My concern is simply the father’s pig headedness is scaring his son for selfish reasons. I have no idea how NAZIs and dead nuns and jews came into this discussion. Please review my posts and reconsider your attack on me.
Note: In regards to your characterization that I “don’t like hair and the Nazis wore short hair”, let me point out that NAZI soldiers wore their hair longer than is permissible under US Military standards. You would be hard pressed to find many NAZIs sporting a crew cut. Finally, I have worn my hair long and short in my lifetime. But when I was 4 my parents cut my hair. Little Taylor should be allowed to form friendships at his school. A simple trim would permit him to be one of the kids instead of having to defend his father’s opions as a 4 year old. Lighten up Francis.
The same way wearing normal male hair styles became a lack of discipline and self mastery, or a topic of Sloth's post.
The boy's hair is a normal style for males. It has been in the US though-out the time from it's founding until now, except for a brief period beginning with the US involvement in the first world war and ending in the mid 1950s.
Long hair is no more degenerate in this boy than it was for the men seen in post number 80, men you must by your assertions here despise, so yes, I have been given every empirical tool by yourself to deny that you have any conservative credentials.
You do not.
Lets see... according to you:
1. The Declaration of Independence was signed by aimless, people lacking self mastery.
2. The same must also be true for the men who drafted the constitution..
3. The men who fought the civil war, and their officers? Degenerates.
4. Jesus of Nazareth must have been scared by his pig headed father into a vow that resulted in long hair.
Sloth wasn't addressing any of these things, just the normalcy of the boys haircut and the inappropriateness of a government entity dictating how civilians may be allowed to groom their own bodies. Nothing else. And this is of no more consequence that combing to the right or combing to the left.
You personally injected mastery and insinuated behaviors of the parents. So you personally are fair game for any similar insinuation and I will remind you that you have no real refutation for my point #4, so Nuns and Nazis is pretty tame.
AS I said before, you went inserting material into someone elses post, so you have zero grounds tho whine like a little brat about me attributing Nuns and Nazis into yours. That is the very point.
You don't like the heat get out of the kitchen.
Little Taylor should be allowed to form friendships at his school. A simple trim would permit him to be one of the kids instead of having to defend his father’s opinions as a 4 year old.
Little Taylor's friends are four. They want to get the best toys at recess. They won't much give a crap about Taylor's hair or his dad unless someone with your expressed mentality tries to tell them that Taylor's hair, and maybe Taylor's dad are bad. Just like Jesus Christ's hair and dad were bad, evidently.
Lighten up Francis.
You mean, don't act like a small child's hair length is something so important that it is acceptable policy to send them home from school for it? I never did that.