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Originally Posted by GordonUK
On a personal note, I found her distaste for what appeared to be a lack of 'health and saftey' considerations refreshing. I find the removal of personal 'risk assessing' by the almost obsessive imposition of 'safety' rather worrying. As children, we learned what was safe and dangerous through experimentation and very few of us seemed to perish in the process. The lessons we learned about things that hurt, things that scared us and things that could have been a lot worse still stuck with us and have kept us safe since then.
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As they say 'If there's no pain, there's no gain'. The younger generation needs to grow up learning for themselves what's right and what's wrong, otherwise how will they learn to think for themselves? They also need to experience pain for themselves or they won't be able to understand anyone else's. It's part of character-forming and how you deal with problems you're confronted with helps determine what sort of a person you'll grow into. This so-called Nanny State is trying to make our decisions for us, but, being individuals, we need to be allowed to shape our lives the way we want, not how THEY think we want. We need to stretch ourselves and find out who we really are without some inanimate body throwing up alerts and warnings all over the place. It'll come to no good in the end.
As for the Clare debate (and there was another one with Gossage as the star), I believe how well you settle in NZ depends a lot on whether you can let go of your previous life expectations and immerse yourself in a new way of life. Some people happily embrace this whereas others just can't see themselves compromising their current life with their new one i.e. doing without all the trimmings and niceties. It all depends on what you want out of life and your perception of what 'quality of life' means to you personally. We all differ, thankfully, or NZ would either be empty of migrants or overflowing with them.