License to Conceive
11-22-2011, 03:35 PM
This is a topic I don't really know what side I am on, so I thought I would toss it up to you guys because for some odd reason you guys make some killer points (in between ball bustings), and it is sort of a spin off of the license to conceive debate.
A few years ago a minor splash in the news was made by the parents who named their kid after nazi figure heads (Adolf Hitler, is one of their sons names).
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Aside from the violence towards the kids (just remove that from equation because), is this a free speech issue?
Normally I am 100% on side of free speech & expression except I am drawing a pause here because they have made it an issue for their child. If they had changed their own names to hitler- I would be ok with that, and just dismiss them as ignorant. But now they have created a problem for their child in 1) they are probably going to be raised ignorant and 2) have applied the name associated with evil to them without their consent.
A few years ago a minor splash in the news was made by the parents who named their kid after nazi figure heads (Adolf Hitler, is one of their sons names).
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Aside from the violence towards the kids (just remove that from equation because), is this a free speech issue?
Normally I am 100% on side of free speech & expression except I am drawing a pause here because they have made it an issue for their child. If they had changed their own names to hitler- I would be ok with that, and just dismiss them as ignorant. But now they have created a problem for their child in 1) they are probably going to be raised ignorant and 2) have applied the name associated with evil to them without their consent.