arrest is a matter of enforcement. Believe me, you don't need an animal rights law for police officers to infringe on your rights. If you have a teaspoon in your kitchen, a police officer can theoretically arrest you, as we speak, for possessing tools related to the usage of narcotics (heroin is warmed in a spoon). This objection is, therefore, also irrelevant. Any rule can be abused; I actually consider animal rights rules to be the more positive ones.

You are right. Still the fewer laws the better. I am also for legalizing drugs, although I am totally against using them, never have and hope I never will.

I would like to add, for the benefit of the folks reading between the lines; I wonder what meanings the people involved in these discussions read into the term "a positive child". I would not be surprised if ethnicity and social class, as well as stereotypical demeanor, play some part here. Who's to say who's positive and who's negative? Are we talking atom particles?