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You set a curfew within your own home. What's odd is you wanting someone else or a collective of someone else's to do it for you.
Do you also need someone to tell what time to wake up, eat lunch, go to bed?
No.
All laws/ordinances cramp *someone’s* style - that’s the whole point of enacting them in the first place. All I’m saying is that there is nothing new about these kinds of laws, and that a town has the long-accepted legal right to enact them. Now maybe they shouldn’t have that right, but that would have to be ruled on by a Supreme Court and AFAIK, there is no mass social call for changing this situation. And that’s what it would take.
"In Virginia, several cities have had trick-or-treating age limits on the books since the 1970s. City officials from Meridian, Miss., to Bishopville, S.C., and Boonsboro, Md., have cut off the trick-or-treat age at 12."
All laws/ordinances cramp *someone’s* style - that’s the whole point of enacting them in the first place. All I’m saying is that there is nothing new about these kinds of laws, and that a town has the long-accepted legal right to enact them. Now maybe they shouldn’t have that right, but that would have to be ruled on by a Supreme Court and AFAIK, there is no mass social call for changing this situation. And that’s what it would take.
No one person, govt., or other fictitious entity should be determining when you can go outside or who you can associate with. Enjoy staying in that playpen that mommy and daddy govt set you down in.
No one person, govt., or other fictitious entity should be determining when you can go outside or who you can associate with. Enjoy staying in that playpen that mommy and daddy govt set you down in.
Last time I trick or treated would have been over 60 years ago but it actually required more then me going outside or associating with anyone. It actually required me to knock on someone's door and yell the phrase while holding out my bag for more goodies to be deposited.
We're not talking about the infringement on anyone's right of association here in any shape or form.
But, you already know that.
Now when you can walk down the center of your main street nude without getting arrested, you can claim you're free from all those "playpen" rules yourself.
Until then, would you please pass the plastic rattle that's laying there right beside your soother?
Last time I trick or treated would have been over 60 years ago but it actually required more then me going outside or associating with anyone. It actually required me to knock on someone's door and yell the phrase while holding out my bag for more goodies to be deposited.
We're not talking about the infringement on anyone's right of association here in any shape or form.
Ummmm...you were freely associating with the people who were giving you candy.
A government preventing people and threatening them with punishment for exercising their freedom of movement is the very definition of infringement of their right to freely associate.
Last time I trick or treated would have been over 60 years ago but it actually required more then me going outside or associating with anyone. It actually required me to knock on someone's door and yell the phrase while holding out my bag for more goodies to be deposited.
We're not talking about the infringement on anyone's right of association here in any shape or form.
But, you already know that.
Now when you can walk down the center of your main street nude without getting arrested, you can claim you're free from all those "playpen" rules yourself.
Until then, would you please pass the plastic rattle that's laying there right beside your soother?
Ummmm...you were freely associating with the people who were giving you candy.
A government preventing people and threatening them with punishment for exercising their freedom of movement is the very definition of infringement of their right to freely associate.
Perhaps a lawyer can tell us how it works in both Canada and the US, but my feeling is that the rules that can be applied to minors may be different than adults.
We already restrict where minors can go in many regards. Would a 16 years old win a case that their rights were violated because the festival beer garden on public land, refused to let them and their friends congregate their?
Same here, even though the 16 year old's only ever wear their football jersey as their costume. Really?
My daughter wore her gymnastics clothes one year age 15-16. Her warm ups, not a leotard. Not in late October at night in Colorado! Anyway, someone asked her to do a trick, so she did a cartwheel.
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