License to Conceive

[Rydrum]

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.

[Beckster]

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.

I think they must be sick individuals to names there kids after monsters. It's a tough line to cross. Yes, we have the right to name our kids whatever we want, but to push the envelope and name your child something like that is just a cry for attention. I'm torn whether taking them away from their parents was a tad extreme or not, but I thought I had read that the kids weren't being abused that just their names were raising the concerns.

[Hondo]

Over-reach of government authority if you ask me. Would I monitor these dolts? Yeah. Take away all their kids over it? No way man.