The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday – 9th March 2020

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  1. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/411267/child-abduction-cases-court-may-take-risk-of-harm-to-mother-into-account
    It would be so good to have improvements to the Hague Convention that is almost biblically Solomon-like in
    its sharp decision-making supposedly on behalf of the child and its connection with the non-custodial parent, usually a male. I warned a young pregnant woman to be sure not to take any money or help from the father and to go home to her mother country and family to have the child. Otherwise this hard law could keep her locked into living in difficult circumstances away from her supportive and loving family, by the other person involved in the conception feeling pleased with the knowledge of his fertility not acting in the child and mother’s best interests. The act of conception, whether in marriage or a partnership or an unexpected outcome from a short-term relationship, does not constitute a relationship partner in itself, appropriate to the child’s need for a loving, committed, good emotional and moral parental role model leading to a socially confident adult.

    The need to think about human relations is vital but our planners do not give prominence to humanities in education. If parents don’t understand how important it is for children to have good instruction and examples of social interaction and understanding of respect for themselves and others, that is one of the causes of anomie. We need to be thinking about anomie, because the description of it fits present society.

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/anomie
    …When a social system is in a state of anomie, common values and common meanings are no longer understood or accepted, and new values and meanings have not developed. According to Durkheim, such a society produces, in many of its members, psychological states characterized by a sense of futility, lack of purpose, and emotional emptiness and despair. Striving is considered useless, because there is no accepted definition of what is desirable.

    American sociologist Robert K. Merton studied the causes of anomie, or normlessness, finding it severest in people who lack an acceptable means of achieving their personal goals. Goals may become so important that if the institutionalized means—i.e., those means acceptable according to the standards of the society—fail, illegitimate means might be used. Greater emphasis on ends rather than means creates a stress that leads to a breakdown in the regulatory structure—i.e., anomie. If, for example, a society impelled its members to acquire wealth yet offered inadequate means for them to do so, the strain would cause many people to violate norms. The only regulating agencies would be the desire for personal advantage and the fear of punishment. Social behaviour would thus become unpredictable.

    • F o o T Paths? That means people walking. Elderly who cannot safely dodge out of the way? too bad.
      Unfortunately we have too many idiots in this country who think it’s ok to zoom along in a mobility scooter or an escooter and that pedestrians just have to get out of the way.

      • And some people think all we need is bells on bikes and that will be the answer to the risks of accidents and falls for pedestrians. This is said with the best of intentions but…Walkers will have their stress levels raised by hearing bicycle bells because it is a warning that means that what should be a peaceful and basic, primitive activity is going to have a machine that will ‘disturb that peace’. And when hearing the bell what should the pedestrian do? Rely on courtesy and good judgment of the machine user and just keep walking or jump in involuntary fright and move to a safe spot at the side. If older people fall, it is no quick-healing greenstick fracture. The knowledge of the deterioration of our societies’ culture requires calming from some outdoor exercise, taking an interest in the landscape; hard to relax if you’re being dinged, to warn you might be dinged!

        If bloody Councils want to cope with excessive and dangerous traffic on the roads affecting the safety of the soft humans cyclists amongst speedy hard machines, then they are not providing a good solution by transferring those humans and machines to the footpaths where they can scoot along as fast as cars if on bikes or powered machines. Is that clever, is it responsible; is there nowhere for a person who wants to be self-sufficient and doesn’t want to rely on machines?

        There needs to be a fence, low but definitely uprights to at least knee height. making a division on shared pathways. On the pedestrian side, it needs to be wide enough for a pushchair for twins, or a wheelchair and enough space at the side for a walker to pass. On the machine transport side a mobility cart and a bike should be able to pass, and that would be wide enough for bikes going in different directions. There would have to be courtesy shown there with bikes stringing out where there was a lot of traffic in both directions. Money will be needed,; make it so!

  6. A skill that some regional Maori have – growing cannabis. In Northland it was said that schools could tell when it had been a good season for the plant, the children had shoes, and all the gear needed. It seems right for Maori to be able to get into this market and not sundry business interests either from here or overseas. And if the licence was to change hands it would have to come back to the NZ issuing office to establish the next NZ holder.
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/411059/medicinal-cannabis-hui-maori-seeking-licences-criticise-high-fees

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