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Originally Posted by clintjm

Ohhh sorry didn't know there was a need for papers and ID check here...
I'm sorry you didn't like my advice in this post or the other one. But you can't call me a troll for posting on the topic you brought up or differences in advice. Its so easy to cry troll when you start feeling challenged.

It is necessary to back up what you say with evidence. Personal experiences are a start, but since I have personal experiences as well, that means you'll need to pair them with other forms of evidence. Articles, statistics, websites, scholarly papers. You make a lot of claims, but you do not back them up.

You yourself said you like to argue for the sake of being ridiculous. If that's because you enjoy seeing the reactions you get, then guess what, you're a troll.

No, adoption in itself isn't childish at all, but the idea of a Single Parent to go back to his home , have the agency adopt a child to take back to a foreign country on a single income is. Also its harmful to the adopted child itself due to the fact that he or she is being taking to a foreign land at the same time being adopted to trust this new stranger in their life.. Just is not right.

I've taken child and adolescent psychology. This is a perfect example of where you make a pretty serious claim, and you need to back it up. Do you have any published work to use as evidence? If you can provide literature where it suggests this will have a permanent, detrimental effect on the child, please provide it. I have yet to see anything that suggests this, nor have I seen it in my personal experiences. Therefore, as above, until you offer me a body of evidence, I am free to reject your assertions as warrantless and unjustified.

Well lets not start calling each other "childish" names now. Well I'm glad you can take that grand title or Very Responsible compared to your high school chums. Pat yourself on the back and look down on all those take government handouts... oh wait... that is the politcs you support.

The "jackass" was meant to match your absurd tone with my own, hence the rolling eyes. You started using the informal tone, I just replied in it.

While the default rate is at average of 18% and has grown slightly due to the American Recession I don't believe that qualifies you as showing a "great degree of responsibility". Nothing wrong with being parents at a young age (22 and up) with a good family base.

You provide numbers without citation. Even if the default rate is 18%, or 20% if it has grown slightly, that is still 1 in 5 Americans. I wasn't talking about default anyway, I was talking about getting paid off. And you haven't shown those are real numbers yet. Evidence without source is just as bad as no evidence at all.

Perhaps you would make a good partent.... but the situation you created of being a
-*single* parent *adopting* and moving a kid to Japan, which the people are proven to discriminate against adopted let alone single parents. Its is a bit strange. I would welcome anyone else to join the discussion on this. Then again there is no need because the adoption process would never go through for the situation you have setup.
Thus its a fantasy.

Make claim, offer no evidence. Make claim, offer no evidence. Seems to be your SOP. You also have said several things I never did. From the guidelines on the State website there does not to be an issue that would match what you describe. I can meet all of the qualifications, as I understand them. If I do not understand them, well, that will be up to a State official to explain that to me. Why? Because that official can back up what he or she will explain with evidence.

What more immature is that you deny the advice you asked for in the first post of this thread.

I didn't ask for advice, I asked for thoughts. I said in the very first line that I felt Nyororin was the possible, and probably the only, exception.

You shouldn't be surprised to meet someone whose views go against pissing the USA economy into a socialist anarchy

I am surprised every time I do so, thinking that eventually, maybe, people who are otherwise quite intelligent may stop thinking that "rugged individualism" can save everyone.

DNC: When you were 20 or 21... great ... again no big surprise at all. Guess you got all the answers then

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I was 23, and no, not all the answers, but enough to know that people who claim to be conservatives are not really fiscally conservative, and if America is going to spend under a political group, I'd rather it be for reasons I agree with.

Well you can escape to Japan to avoid the US hard ships for now. I'm so glad you'll consider coming back after public transportation and health care is to you're liking...

When it is possible for me to make a living in America, comfortably, I will return. The world is more than just the US, for someone who claims to have traveled extensively, you should know. So if the benefits I receive for my employment in Japan are better than the benefits I would receive in America, it is only economically sensical to move. Aren't you conservatives all for free trade and unrestricted capitalism, a la the invisible hand. In fact, didn't Reaganomics claim the be the return of Adam Smith to his rightful place? You of all people should be applauding my decision based on capitalist principles.

I'm not sure what evidence you would like? I'm mean its a given fact that single parent adoption to a 25-30 y/o and then taking that child into a foreign envionment would fail the best interest of the child...

Another Reagan moment... There you go again. There no "given facts" here, no premises that we have accepted. If you are going to make a claim like that, you must back it up with evidence if it is to be believed. I am quite aware of the idea of the "best interest of the child" and I don't see, looking at any of the guidelines I have looked at, why I should be denied.

Big surprise... philosophy major... you'll go far with that in politics perhaps... in fact you'll fit right in with the jokers today...
Enjoy the imaginary ivory tower while your young... when it comes time to move on from teaching English to young kids(my guess is what you do) and move on to a career be sure to put this post on your resume.

You make assumption after assumption after assumption. I went to school to be an English teacher. Philosophy is just a hobby. Teaching is my career. I've also said that numerous times in other posts. I'm already doing what I want to do in life. Getting an MA will allow me to pursue teaching jobs that double my income. Most require just an MA, no specific one, and thus I am considering philosophy because I enjoy it.

If you were really interested in debate, you would offer unemotional arguments with evidence. You do not. Therefore, I judge that I am feeding a troll.