| Barnard17 |
07-25-2008 05:27 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by right-track
(Post 500970)
He's a Uni student.
That and he doesn't like you. ;)
Have you graduated Fal?
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Not even started, begin a course in Politics come September. The terminology I use comes from A level Sociology and Psychology. I'm 19 and have just had a gap year, during which I've done absolutely nothing involving politics or debate. I'm either going to get my linguistic skills destroyed come start of term, or I'm going to get my hope for the future of this nation destroyed when I realise what a bunch of lazy, incompetent wasters we're sending into the HE system just because it looks good if everyone has a degree. I'm already expecting the latter but fervently hoping the former.
And Jackhammer, you'll notice my posts aren't putting down your theories and opinions but encouraging you to do much research into the basis of them. I haven't done that research, which is why I'm not stating a formed counter-opinion. It is through questioning ourselves that we learn.
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." - Rene Descartes.
Go to your local Crown or Magistrates court and sit in on a few cases in the public galleries. For the most part you'll be bored ****less but every now and then you'll come across some genius piece of melodrama being played out. If you get a chance to talk to anybody who works there then do so. It's very easy to poo-poo a system based upon the stories that the media chooses to focus on but at the end of the day a journalist is writing to an audience without any direct response. Actually talking to someone who works within the legal system could throw a very different view on why the sentencing system is laid out the way it is. You'll also learn a hell of a lot more than 90% of the MPs that voted the bill into play. |
