LSF Spanking Survey

Through a minor slip up, the original LSF Spanking Survey thread on this forum is now lost forever in the Great Cyber Trash Can In the Sky. Or maybe it is in the Cloud.

So here's a quick recap. We have had just over 300 responses, of which 15 are from our vanilla friends and about 20 stop abruptly after just a couple of questions have been answered.

A free-lance journalist from NY City, and a researcher from British Columbia have taken note of what we are up to, and it is possible we will be asked to do another survey with new questions some time in the future.

For those who have yet to take the survey, this link will get you started.

And a weekly update can be seen on this page

I will acknowledge that an off-topic post I made was perhaps the trigger for that sequence of events. That is NOT to say, however, that I am to blame. "Fault" is something altogether different from merely being in the chain of causation (as I have recently explained to a friend on an altogether different matter). My hope is that the survey participants can rapidly fill up this new thread with comments and observations that are equally adroit as those in the original.

The original thread is still showing for me, just the last couple of posts (those after 6th Apr) apparently got zapped.

SOMEbody's behind sure is lucky.

So if I took the survey yesterday, does that mean my information is lost? Do I take it again or just forget about it?

njrick's explanation regarding fault versus "being in the chain of causation" brought to mind a remark apocryphally credited to Richard Nixon, though I am almost positive it was uttered by comedian Robert Klein, in a skit about Nixon's Watergate speech. Nixon/Klein said:

"Let me be clear: as President, I take full responsibility. Full responsibility - but not the blame. Let me explain the difference. People who are to blame lose their jobs; people who are responsible, do not."

I do like the expression "being in the chain of causation" though. It sounds much better than "sharing the blame (or is that "responsibility"), even though it seems to mean the same thing.

Hmm that sounds like a good line to use the next time I'm in trouble!! "I'm sorry sir, but it wasn't my fault...I'm just in the chain of causation!"

Reckon it would save my behind???

Mini.

[quote=Minidancer]I'm sorry sir, but it wasn't my fault...I'm just in the chain of causation!"[/quot
And when chains are involved you can always blame the weakest link! heheh

I certainly hope not!!!


Don't think it hasn't happened.

But to make it clear for both of you (and the other members here who are sitting on the edges of their seats, waiting with bated breath), let me give an example:

Let's say I offer someone a job. On the day he is to start, as he's pulling into the parking lot of my business, an inattentive driver on a cell phone plows into his car, killing him. I'm not to blame for his death - rather the idiot driver on his cell phone is. Yet, I am in the chain of causation, for if I hadn't offered him the job, he never would have been where he was at that unfortunate moment. See the difference?

And now that I've done away with one of the the parents, let the story begin! Oops... wrong thread.

Well done there Rick