I got the impression that it was supposed to be somewhat opportunistic in the Hunger Games. They had been making plans and gathering supporters for a while, and just decided to piggy back on a wave of popular sentiment that came along at the right time.

I guess though that that is the reason for propaganda. To force people to take a side.

I think it was also common in cold climates before central heating.

Yeah, I just calculated the size of my 3 bedroom house and it works out at just over 800 sf excluding the carport. I didn't realise that was deemed unsuitable for children. To be fair I have a large yard (in Australian suburbs, not NY), so there is somewhere to play outside. But still, it's not that hard to raise…

If someone did go through with it I would hold both them, and the person who made the listing each fully and individually responsible. It's not the sort of situation where you can split the blame as you might if it were an accident or negligence.

This isn't the first story I have heard about this type of fake listing. Really anyone responding to such adds should be aware that it might be a fake listing and meet with the person, in person, beforehand. Consent or safe words don't mean anything if you can't confirm who they came from.

I don't really recall confiscation ever being a thing at my school, although I'm a bit too old to have experienced the problems of mobile phones in school (they were around, but a bit too expensive for the kids at my school). Confiscating mobile phones isn't really the same as confiscating some other object though,…

It means that the impact of the punishment will depend on how much money the student has access to. That's a terrible policy.

They don't want anything to disrupt their belief that the world is fair and just. If anything bad happens, then that person must have done something to deserve it.

That's because HR exists to protect the company, not the employees. People think HR is there to protect them so they go to HR for help, with the only result being that the company has now been warned that they might get sued, and can protect themselves by firing the person for some other reason.

It's like a great big train wreck you can see coming, but don't know how to stop.

Things don't just automatically get better over time, society can just as easily become more prejudiced as become less prejudiced. Things can also be getting better on one front, and worse on another. It's dangerous to become complacent and think that things will just get better on their own.

You are mixing up the child and parent again. The child didn't make an informed, legal decision to not be vaccinated. Seriously, once again, children are PEOPLE not pawns in a battle between you and their parents. Are there other cases where you advocate harming children to keep their parents in line?

Did you perhaps forget to be born into a wealthy family?

I have noticed that in a lot of ways, the more I get paid, the easier the jobs are. The higher paid jobs usually require more skill or experience, but involve much less stress. Just because a job doesn't require a rare skill, doesn't meant it isn't solid hard work. If a job needs doing, the person doing it should get…

Well, I think it is true that most things cost more in Australia than in the US. But the higher minimum wage more than makes up for that, so it still works out better overall.

You seem to be treating children as extensions or accessories of the parent rather than as individual human beings. It is inhumane to suggest punishing children as a tool to control their parent's behaviour.

Both come from a lack of trust in the medical establishment. Most people don't have the knowledge required to assess risks/benefits themselves and must trust the opinions of others. But, when people don't trust doctors and other medical professionals to give them advice then we have a problem. They aren't going to…

That's pretty fucked up. The kids aren't responsible for their parent's actions. They are being screwed over just as much as the other kids who are exposed to them. Any penalties should be applied to the parents, not the child.

The attempt at the end of this video wasn't bad: