You want to force people to live
Under a righteous law
What I believe has nothing to do with it.
to be government imposed laws
Yes, only the government has the right to impose laws.
that comport to your beliefs.
Again, my beliefs have nothing to do with this.
That's akin to religious tyranny.
No one has said anything about religion but you, Arty.
This is the West where personal freedom and liberty is valued.
"Personal freedom and liberty" does not include murdering the innocent.
If you think you can "force" people into your particular brand of "morality"
I can't force anyone into anything. The government, however, can.
then you are woefully misguided. Force does not change other people's values or beliefs that differ to yours.
Having good laws protects the innocent and punishes the guilty, while still allowing people to believe what they want.
That does not mean, however, that if people believe that they should be allowed dispose of inconvenient children without facing consequences, that they should be allowed to.
Just because people are attracted enough to have sex doesn't equate to their being compatible for a long term relationship.
Then they shouldn't be having sex, should they?
Sex is for when two people are committed to each other and want to have children.
It's not intended to be a recreational event.
Other people's sex lives are nobody else's business
Only if the people in question are married to each other.
Otherwise, yes, it is the government's business, because the natural result of sex is the conception of a child.
and forcing, say, a teenage couple to marry is an abrogation of their human rights.
Again, if they don't want to get married, then they shouldn't be having sex.
They give up the right to not be married the moment they have sex without being married. And because it's more loving to the child for him to have both parents in his home, if that teen couple breaks up, they care more about convenience than they do about the child.
That's why the government should force those who have sex outside of marriage to marry and never divorce, because it's cruel to the child to allow it.
It also teaches the rest of society that there are consequences to having sex, the biggest being that a child is conceived.
Your argument is effectively around the lines of 'might makes right'.
Wrong.
It's the reverse. "Right makes might."
When you have good laws, the nation is blessed.
It's completely up to men and women whether they get married and have sex or don't.
Marriage and sex are not mutually exclusive items.
If two people have sex, it should only be within marriage.
If a person doesn't want to marry, then abstinence is their only option.
If two people want to marry, but not have sex, then that's totally fine.
If two people want to have sex, but not marry, that is wrong, and they should, if caught, be forced to marry, because it would be cruel to any children that are conceived as a result of their lust.
Marriage doesn't magically make a stable family union in itself by any stretch.
What I'm saying seems to be going over your head, Arty.
NEVER NOT ONCE have I said that a two-parent family will ALWAYS WITHOUT FAIL be stable.
What I have said is that when both the father and the mother are around, it is a far better environment than any single-parent home, because of the division of labor between husband and wife. And I have given you the stats to prove it.
It is BETTER for both mother and father to be in the same home, than is a broken family.
Why should the child face the repercussions of irresponsible, neglectful and abusive parents and die as a result when there was help available that could have prevented that?
They shouldn't, because the parents of that child SHOULD be responsible, which is why if a child dies as a result of neglect, it is considered murder by neglect, and the parents should be executed, which will deter other parents from neglecting their children.
Again, you keep trying to attack this issue in a vaccuum, but it won't work because there's more to it than just "the child dies as a result of neglect."
The government's role is not to take care of people from cradle to grave. It's to provide infrastructure (both to allow people to thrive, and to allow it to enforce the law), and criminal justice (both foreign and domestic).
It literally does not have the bandwidth necessary to take care of every child that's being neglected, and doing so would put too much strain on it that would prevent it from doing well only what it SHOULD be doing in the first place.
Is that child just collateral damage?
No.
You don't pity the child caught up in unhealthy environments at all JR,
Yes, I do.
else you would either step in yourself if you could
Now you're moving the goalposts.
We're talking about the government, here, not me personally.
If I could, I would step in, no question.
That does not mean, however, that the government should be the one to step in.
or stand aside and let those who could help do their job
Once again, it is not the government's job to take care of people from cradle to grave.
and give that child what they need.
What a child needs is for his parents to care for him.
The government CANNOT fill that role, no matter how hard it tries.
Failure to allow authorities to take a child in danger
You mean to kidnap them?
Yeah, in case you weren't aware, kidnapping is a capital offence, and kidnappers should be executed.
into care and allowing that child to die as a result
Supra, re: bandwidth.
Parents who kill their children through neglect should be executed, as a deterrent against other parents who neglect their children.
makes you just as culpable for that child's death as it could have been avoided.
You're trying to make this personal.
Stop it. It's not going to work.
There are already laws that make neglectful and abusive parenting serious crimes
They're not harsh enough. If they were, parents wouldn't neglect their children near as much as you think they do.
and such wouldn't magically disappear with your proposals.
All it would take is one execution of parents who killed their child through neglect for it to become a non-issue ever again. And it probably wouldn't ever reach that point, if all convicted criminals guilty of capital crimes were executed prior to that, because that alone would be enough of a deterrent.
The government does indeed have a responsibility in regards to the welfare of children and rightly so
No, it doesn't, and saying it does doesn't make it so.
Nobody's arguing that marriage is a bad thing here,
Liar. You yourself are saying that it's sometimes bad, and that some single parents do it better.
rather pointing out that healthy environments don't necessarily have that paradigm.
It is FAR HEALTHIER of an environment for a child to have both parents in the home than just one, even if they're bad parents.
Well aware that none of what you've said has come from other countries
Then don't make the straw man of it.
but the underpinning religious extremism is more than evident.
I'm not talking about religion.
I'm talking about what a good government would look like.
You can't force people to be caring and responsible JR.
No, but the government can force people to follow the law, which is why it's so important to have good laws, especially if they promote responsibility and care.
Some people are simply unfit to be parents
Yet there's no possible way to know that until they become parents, and trying to determine such things would result in tyranny.
and children need to be removed from them
Children should NEVER be removed from their parents (barring cases of divorce and/or capital crimes).
Why do you want to punish the children rather than the parents for the crime of the parents?
before worse case scenarios can happen.
You can't predict the future, much less the government can.
If there's a responsible relative willing to do so then great, if not then protection services need to step in.
Nope, the government has no business interfering except when a crime is committed.
A child has the rights to food, water, shelter, warmth, education, period.
False. Period.
Those are needs, not rights.
Carry on with those derogatory slurs towards women who aren't chaste
I'm not the one who came up with the idea to call them that, Arty.
That's what they are!
When a woman acts promiscuously, she is, by definition, a slut.
When she does the same for money, that makes her, by definition, a whore.
Supra.
They're human beings AFAIC.
Which is why I'm not calling them animals. Though, when they act like animals, then there's very little in the way preventing one from doing so.
Only as far as the law is concerned.
Otherwise, they are not.
They're at least equal to you in terms of capabilities also.
Nope. Men are better than women at some things, and women are better at men at other things.
Take sports for example, why do you think it's such a big deal when a tranny male participates and wins in a women's sporting competition, despite claiming to be female and having relatively little practice in the sport?
It's because men and women ARE different, and they are NOT equal in everything.
You should reflect on your pride and arrogance where it comes to your thinking you are a spokesperson for God. You aren't.
I don't have to be a spokesperson for God to know that He knows your thoughts, and that he doesn't approve of them, Arthur.