[Russ]

Originally Posted by Stop It

In an ideal world, I'd agree, but we do not live in one.

People suck, if education was the only problem we would not live in a society that needed equal rights legislation. The fact is that the education system has been used as a tool to propagate intolerance and inequality. Remember at various times in history slavery was justified because people were taught that black people were inferior, almost sub human so it didn't matter how they were treated.

Humanity, as a species are a highly competitive race and one-upmanship is almost a default. As such we are prone to making stuff up to help make that process easier. Being left to our own devices and hoping that telling people to be nice will stop that from happening is naive. Yes, education can help but you need the law as a backup.

After all, we tell people that rape and murder is wrong too, but education doesn't work 100% of the time either, hence the "do not murder someone or you will go to jail". There must be the threat of sanction otherwise why would anyone bother doing the right thing if it doesn't benefit them.

Finally I totally agree with family courts being biased and this needs to be fixed. Custody cases should be decided on what's best for the child, not defaulting to either parent.

Just because we don't live in an ideal world doesn't mean we shouldn't strive for one.