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I am not going to state the name of the site in particular that concerns me as I don't need a libel case on my hands.
My issue with online petitions is that often they take something that if someone were to say it and you aren't thinking about it sounds like it's a horrible situation and damn it let me sign that petition right now.
But then you start thinking about it. The example I will use is following but please if you want to debate it create a different thread this is about the petitions.
Woman is arrested for sending their kids to school in a different district than the one they were living in because she felt the school in their area was in a dangerous unsafe area and thus not a good learning environment for her kids. The Petition then asks that we sign a petition asking the state in question to improve their schools. All while telling us how this conviction has messed up this woman's career goals.
Things they never mention:
1) Why she was actually arrested? I am sorry but they don't arrest you if you send your kids to another school unless the following are true
A) You lied about where you lived and defrauded the state instead of going through proper channels and getting a boundary exception.
B) You sent your kids to the other school for their education but didn't enroll them as official students nor remove them from the other school thus what the schools see is that your kids are playing hooky and in some places if you aren't making sure your kids go to school you will be arrested for it.
2) If the reason she did this was because the school she was supposed to send them to is in a dangerous and unsafe neighborhood then how is improving the school going to stop it from being an unsafe and dangerous neighborhood? Wouldn't the same problems still exist?
3) In what ways do you want to improve the schools you want me to sign a petition to get better schools but in what way do you think the school could be made better. I doubt anyone thinks we should make schools worse. Shouldn't your petition tell your government what you feel needs change instead of giving them a bunch of signatures that say, "Change something"
Honestly that's the equivalent of walking up to the front counter at a fast food restaurant and saying, "My food was wrong fix it" but refusing to tell them how your food was wrong or how to fix it leaving them not really able to do much except to make you another burger which may be the exact same because they don't know what the problem is.
I am losing respect for petitions because of this it seems like petitions are less about legitimately bringing attention to issues or getting people who care about an issue to rally around.
If you can't offer me full disclosure of the details surrounding a situation then let me tell you "Adam Carolla I will not sign your petition to end Women's Suffrage"
My issue with online petitions is that often they take something that if someone were to say it and you aren't thinking about it sounds like it's a horrible situation and damn it let me sign that petition right now.
But then you start thinking about it. The example I will use is following but please if you want to debate it create a different thread this is about the petitions.
Woman is arrested for sending their kids to school in a different district than the one they were living in because she felt the school in their area was in a dangerous unsafe area and thus not a good learning environment for her kids. The Petition then asks that we sign a petition asking the state in question to improve their schools. All while telling us how this conviction has messed up this woman's career goals.
Things they never mention:
1) Why she was actually arrested? I am sorry but they don't arrest you if you send your kids to another school unless the following are true
A) You lied about where you lived and defrauded the state instead of going through proper channels and getting a boundary exception.
B) You sent your kids to the other school for their education but didn't enroll them as official students nor remove them from the other school thus what the schools see is that your kids are playing hooky and in some places if you aren't making sure your kids go to school you will be arrested for it.
2) If the reason she did this was because the school she was supposed to send them to is in a dangerous and unsafe neighborhood then how is improving the school going to stop it from being an unsafe and dangerous neighborhood? Wouldn't the same problems still exist?
3) In what ways do you want to improve the schools you want me to sign a petition to get better schools but in what way do you think the school could be made better. I doubt anyone thinks we should make schools worse. Shouldn't your petition tell your government what you feel needs change instead of giving them a bunch of signatures that say, "Change something"
Honestly that's the equivalent of walking up to the front counter at a fast food restaurant and saying, "My food was wrong fix it" but refusing to tell them how your food was wrong or how to fix it leaving them not really able to do much except to make you another burger which may be the exact same because they don't know what the problem is.
I am losing respect for petitions because of this it seems like petitions are less about legitimately bringing attention to issues or getting people who care about an issue to rally around.
If you can't offer me full disclosure of the details surrounding a situation then let me tell you "Adam Carolla I will not sign your petition to end Women's Suffrage"
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