Naming your child.

The Doctor wrote: The T wrote: Deathrabbit wrote: The Doctor wrote: But what about the torment the child will go through as he's growing up? I think it is child abuse and it is not a parent's right to do whatever they damn well please with their or to their children.  They are not a property interest.  Of course, I'm against white supremacists being able to breed in the first place.  That sounds like the eugenics that said white supremacists espouse. Because TheDoctor is the same, just different. Yeah, us f'ing liberals.  Always wanting to stamp out hate, poverty and unfairness in the world.

Yes. You want everybody to be poor, not just some.

Ok good Doc let's not hijack another thread

^I think nobody should want to beat up a child named Superman

The Doctor wrote: I never said I wasn't in favor of copulation. Just, that certain people shouldn't do it.

I usually don't agree with you, but my wife's uncle and aunt are foster parents...the stories I've heard sometimes make me wish for forced sterilization.

Epignosis wrote: The Doctor wrote: But what about the torment the child will go through as he's growing up? I think it is child abuse and it is not a parent's right to do whatever they damn well please with their or to their children.  They are not a property interest.  Of course, I'm against white supremacists being able to breed in the first place.  Suppose you named your child "Cyrus Worthington Black." Then, three weeks after the child was born, a man named "Cyrus Worthington" makes huge news by bombing fourteen Chicago buildings in the same day, killing an estimated 1,700 people. Are you then guilty of child abuse for your child's name?

^ I think it would be unintentional abuse. :P 

Edited by harmonium.ro - October 29 2011 at 10:08

harmonium.ro wrote: ^ I think it would be unintentional abuse. :P  But that's a completely hypothetical situation, the chances for a, say, Mr. & Mrs Schmidt couple naming their child Adolf Hitler Schmidt without knowing who Adolf Hitler was are zero IMO.

Not zero- stranger things have happened.

I honestly think it's awful when parents give their child a perfectly normal name with an ridiculous spelling.  That individual will have to spell out his or her name every time.

Also, one of my students is named Garnea.  It is pronounced "Zhuh-nay." 

it is the same story with the name Judas, no one names their kid with that name even if the guy who had the name supposedly died 2011 years ago or so, stil it is not a popular name to many persons, why arent people braking the mold and naming their kid Judas then it is a okey name i think...

Epignosis wrote: harmonium.ro wrote: Epignosis wrote: The Doctor wrote: But what about the torment the child will go through as he's growing up? I think it is child abuse and it is not a parent's right to do whatever they damn well please with their or to their children.  They are not a property interest.  Of course, I'm against white supremacists being able to breed in the first place.  Suppose you named your child "Cyrus Worthington Black." Then, three weeks after the child was born, a man named "Cyrus Worthington" makes huge news by bombing fourteen Chicago buildings in the same day, killing an estimated 1,700 people. Are you then guilty of child abuse for your child's name? Not sure how that applies to Doc's position, Rob. It's not intentionally giving your child the name of a hugely controversial figure, which is obviously not OK.   It applies: What I'm interested to know is vested in that qualifier you just used.  Is it the name itself that makes it child abuse, or is it the motivation of the parents?  If a couple who'd honestly never heard of Adolf Hitler named their child that, would that be child abuse? Just participating in and exploring the topic.

Intention is almost always relevant to a criminal act.  Child abuse is no different.  For example, if I pick up my child and throw him to the ground - that's abuse.  If I pick up my child and while holding him/her lose my footing or balance and drop the child - the injuries may be the same, but there was no intent to harm the child and therefore, no abuse. 

In the extremely unlikely event that someone had never heard of Hitler, but named their child Adolph Hitler, no it would not be abuse.  Simply ignorance.