They published the letter I sent to the 'Tiser yesterday. It rather surprises me. The 'do-gooders' out there will be on to me tomorrow (or the day after) telling me that they know exactly where to draw the line. Lucky them. I do not know where you draw the line in sentencing law.
Being disadvantaged is one thing and being delinquent is another. Some would have it that they are the same thing.
It brings me to the other little thing Australian law needs, a 'not proven' verdict. It's a little quirk of Scots law that could be usefully applied elsewhere. I remember saying this at law school and being howled down but, all too often, there is evidence there that cannot be used for one reason or another and the victim watches the aggressor walk off with a smirk on his or her face. Perhaps a 'not proven' with costs would prove a deterrent for some - or maybe not.
Friends 'phoned yesterday and arranged to transport us out to lunch. They do this occasionally. It is their way of entertaining themselves. They mean well and believe they are giving us something to do. The problem is that they (and many others) simply do not believe that I work. It is a hazard of working independently from home. I have even been told 'but you don't work do you?' They find it even harder to believe that my father has so much to do that going out in the middle of the day just to socialise is something he would rather not do. Perhaps we are unsociable - or is it because we like to get things done before we relax?
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