Elizabeth Brooks <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> And here's the part that drives me batty:  there is no Who Code Court to
> whom I, or you, or anyone, can appeal for a final, definitive ruling on
> these matters.  Yes -- *opinions* are abounding.  Including my own.  But
> each country legislates the WHO Code differently.  Even if you find a
> country that says "Aha!  Bad Parent will taint the Good Child -- fines all
> around!"  that wonderful ruling willl NOT hold any weight or authority
> across its own borders.

I have noticed that you have repeatedly used this Parent-Child metaphor,
and I find it a particularly inapt one. 

Of course we do not blame children for the actions of their parents;
minors are not and cannot be legally or morally responsible for the
actions of the adults who happened to bring them into this world.

A commercial relationship, however, is an entirely different thing to a
parent-child relationship. We can and do reasonably boycott and pressure
_companies_ (not individual children, but companies run by grown adults
for profit), based on which other companies they commercially choose to
associate with in order to maximise their profit.

Lara Hopkins

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