tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152955814546861725.post855422022387210356..comments2022-11-10T14:38:10.263+00:00Comments on Not Yet Out Of The Woods: Balancing Equality With JusticeOranjepanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08150901449640162740noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152955814546861725.post-19584150579747627352010-04-05T18:51:51.132+01:002010-04-05T18:51:51.132+01:00Ah, you are thinking of the Biology Practical, a l...Ah, you are thinking of the Biology Practical, a lesson often wished for and so rarely forthcoming!<br /><br />I've wondered if it is individual sexual need since reading those words. I do not think it is. One can fulfil that to a great extent by flying solo. <br /><br />Heterosexuality and homosexuality and the shades between are, probably, more about the wonderful companionship provided by the adored person with the added side benefit, usually, of sex. And yet one has no need to be with the partner of one's desires for the sex to be excellent, nor with the sex of one's desires for the companionship to be wonderful.<br /><br />By the way, you might as a side issue, take a look at <a href="http://brodylevesque.blogspot.com/2010/04/brodys-scribbles-whose-relationships.html" rel="nofollow">Brody's Notes and Scribbles today</a>. It;s a relevant side issue.<br /><br />----<br /><br />So many ministers of state are unfit for purpose! Why should Grayling be any different? Every party has its share of complete arses. As Lionel Jefferies once observed, bald headed men should put their heads together in pairs and make complete arses of themselves.<br /><br />The two major parties are full of fools, loons, bombasts, windbags and a few decent men and women. I admire The Beast of Bolsover for his convictions though not for his politics. Cable has the potential to make an excellent chancellor. Widdicombe, for all her glaring faults, is staunch, though I suspect retiring.<br /><br />Even so we choose to delegate authority to these rogues, knaves and charlatans, probably because we really do not want to do it ourselves. Almost any of us could make a better job of it than any of the politicians we delegate our authority to. Why do we do that?Tim Trenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00698536468287397610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152955814546861725.post-1834815325503439642010-04-05T18:17:59.469+01:002010-04-05T18:17:59.469+01:00Exactly - a B&B maybe located in the same buil...Exactly - a B&B maybe located in the same building as someone lives, but utility bills etc are taxed according to the usage in different parts.<br /><br />I can fully accept the point about the desire for procreation not being the preserve of straights, but if I remember my biology lessons correctly (I was quite a good extra-curricular student in my day) there does require some outside assistance to bend the rules if two members of the same sex want to have children - I mean, I've yet to hear about two sperm or two ova creating foetuses and I struggle to, er, concieve of a naturally-conducive situation where they would be capable.<br /><br />So I think it's also helpful to distinguish between the individual sexual need and the human procreative wish.<br /><br />Still none of it speaks well of Grayling's credentials as a prospective Home Sec.Oranjepanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08150901449640162740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152955814546861725.post-48471773892010261232010-04-05T17:01:28.527+01:002010-04-05T17:01:28.527+01:00As to your point about overpopulation, the desire ...As to your point about overpopulation, the desire to procreate is not limited to the heterosexuals of the world. <br /><br />If it were a serious way of limiting populations, should we not compel every third child to be homosexual?Tim Trenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00698536468287397610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152955814546861725.post-10845000035328719672010-04-05T16:56:27.310+01:002010-04-05T16:56:27.310+01:00I think Grayling is guilty of no more than stupidi...I think Grayling is guilty of no more than stupidity. This puts him in company with a great many MPs and MEPs.<br /><br />He's trying to rationalise the impossible: Many B&Bs are in people's homes. On;es home doesn't look like a business, therefore, thinks he, the law should not apply.<br /><br />At first sight this appears reasonable. But look again.<br /><br />The B&B makes part of that home subject to business taxes. It is a business. The owners offset costs against profits. It is a business, and it is subject to the law.<br /><br />If it's a bad law then it can be altered. Grayling could and should have argued that it is a bad law. I disagree that it is bad, but that is my right. I must still, if I run a business, adhere to it.<br /><br />The Wilkinsons in Cookham will do what they will do. The press shows them to have received many hundreds of messages condemning their attitude. The Daily Mail shows that their readers side with the Wilkinsons, but that surprises no-one, certainly not other Daily Mail readers!<br /><br />Grayling is just a fool, nor a homophobe.<br /><br />It wasn't that many years ago that we had campaigns against the class of person we dismissively called 'wogs'. More polite folk excused the term as 'Westernised Oriental Gentlemen', but we still hated other races, especially when their skin tone didn't match our own.<br /><br />Like Grayling, Enoch Powell, normally nobody's fool, was stupid, and, in the same manner that Grayling is not homophobic, Powell was not racist. But both lost the minute they opened their mouths.<br /><br />Equality is a myth, even many years after legislation mandates it. But we tend towards better equality because legislation exists.Tim Trenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00698536468287397610noreply@blogger.com