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Kensho | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 1) what?
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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Far-left won seats there on a pro-mass-immigration platform and I think we should call their bluff by sending them a few million very pious men with anger-management issues.
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LibertyGal | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 People do need to learn that there are consequences from their beliefs, actions, and votes.

As a business owner, when my employees made a mistake, I used to just fix the mistake.  They kept making the mistake again and again because they didn't feel the pain.  I finally realized I needed to teach them to fix the mistake and make them do the work.  Suddenly they stopped making the same mistake again and again because they felt the pain and not just me.
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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Yeah, it's the same with kids. Sometimes they don't "get it" until they experience it.

Finnland is very far north, so they are still feeling smug.
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LibertyGal | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 When my kids were very little (crawling stage), I found places with maybe 2-4 steps for them to climb.  They learned what happened when you fell or misjudged steps, but they did so in a situation where they would be scared and maybe even get a little scrape or bruise, but they couldn't be seriously injured.  This enabled them to learn consequences without the consequences being too bad.  

Unfortunately most parents today protect their kids from experiencing consequences of their actions.  When they become adults, they can't see the consequences of their actions.  Also, as adults, the consequences tend to be much more severe.  Parents overprotecting their kids leads to their adult progeny suffering 10 or a 100 times more when they experience true consequences.  Unfortunately, they aren't the only ones suffering from the bad parenting.  We all pay the price.