as a tenant, i'd consider a "no children" clause to be a selling point. i'd even be willing to accept a short-term increase in rent to help the landlord pay the fine.
there needs to be options for people that decide to have children. but there also needs to be options for people that have decided to not have children.
www.cbc.ca/news/business/got-kids-find-another-place-to-live-1.3233761
Donald D
Jessica, you have every right not to have children if you don't want to have them. You also have every right not to endure excessive noise in your dwelling. But neither you nor landlords are allowed to control how others respect the noise requirements in a building, and you certainly don't get to decide that families with children cannot live in the same building as you.
Your neighbours could be gay, black, Amish, wheelchair-bound, pet owning parents, and as long as they respect the noise and cleanliness regulations of the building, you get no say
jessica murray
i'm an anarchist, so i don't believe in property rights, which means i don't believe in tenants rights. rather, i think that the people that get to decide who lives in a building are the tenants, themselves.
if the tenants of a building decide they don't want kids in it, then it's up to the government to try and stop them. and, as mentioned, i'd be willing to help pay the fine.
you can throw around the language you'd like all you want, the question is what is it that you think you're going to do to enforce it? the only thing you can do is go to the human rights commission and get a fine. and, i'll gladly pay the fine and keep the restriction, thanks.
Sid
How idiotic and uncaring of you
jessica murray
well, it works both ways. it just means that people that want kids will need to organize to create spaces that are welcoming of their lifestyle decisions. i'd even support a little government help in doing that. but, not at the expense of my own peace.
Leopold August Wilhelm Dorothe von Henning
This isn't about "options", but human rights.
jessica murray
well, i'd question whether this is a valid application of human rights law; i don't think i'm paying to get around a rights abuse, i reject the idea that it's a rights abuse in the first place.
as mentioned, i would support the government subsidizing segregated housing units for people with children. that is the proper rights balance that respects their rights to housing and my rights to not be annoyed by them.
700kotchi
You reject anything that doesn`t fit your point of view it seems. See above.
jessica murray
this is the standard boneheaded reaction to my generally very subtle and sometimes quite complex arguments.
700kotchi
I don`t think you need worry about ever having children.
jessica murray
the most important thing that my parents taught me is not to have children. unless you have a lot of wealth to throw around, your goals immediately change. you no longer live for your own dreams; you must live for those of your kids. it's a type of martyrdom.
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jessica murray
my post seems to have been disabled because it had the most likes and contradicts the message in the story. it's not remotely offensive. and that's pretty weak, cbc. rather than post it again, i'd request that you re-enable it.
Stan
(something about flagging the post)
jessica murray
and, you accuse me of not accepting the views of others? i've never flagged anything in my life, other than spam.
that's blatantly frivolous censorship.
original post:
as a tenant, i'd consider a "no children" clause to be a selling point. i'd even be willing to accept a short-term increase in rent to help the landlord pay the fine.
there needs to be options for people that decide to have children. but there also needs to be options for people that have decided to not have children.
there's nothing flaggable, there.
if people are going to abuse the flag function, it should really be disabled.
you're lucky there's not a legal process here, because you don't have anything close to a valid argument.
Extrapolate
My post has disappeared as well. Is that all it takes...to have someone who disagrees flag it ?
SquareDeal
How many. Is it in Bill C-51
jessica murray
while it seems as though this response is sardonic, the truth is that that's a good question. but, if so, i think it is codifying long existing practice. i can't be sure if i'm crosslinked to my 2008 election persona, but i was certainly dealing with censorship then, too.
and 2011, too, of course.