Do you think it should be legal to humanely kill your own children under the age of 8, assuming both parents consent, there's a mental health evaluation, and a waiting period?
- Yes5.8%
- No94.2%
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Just so I’m following, this is a mental health evaluation where both parents have said they want to murder their 3rd grader and the evaluator says “yeah, you guys seem fine?”
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I think the steelmanned yes argument for this would be something like if your kid is a complete psychopath who beats their siblings and tortures animals to death and youre like hmm maybe this one shouldnt ever hit the streets
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So, leaving aside the issues with an 8-year-old “needing” to be put down, the question was about the evaluation: like the idea is some mental health professional is going to talk to someone expressing filicidal feelings and conclude “actually, they’re fine?”
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Doesn't really seem like the parents should be the final judge of that. They're hardly widely known to be impartial and universally of excellent judgement.
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