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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 26

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    This is why I reject the idea that parents own their children to the extent that those children do not have the rights of citizens. When parents abuse & endanger their children, the state must be able to take them away and protect them as British citizens with human rights. https://twitter.com/Legal_Equality/status/1055718997071605760 …

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      2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 26

        I cannot accept that my rights are only protected because my parents decided not to beat me, mutilate me or take me to a religious war zone. I should have had the right to know that if they'd tried, my country would have recognised me as an individual with rights & protected me.

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 26

        I'm afraid I think the few people claiming children of British Muslims who take them to ISIS do not have the rights of British citizens are full of shit & wld instantly recognise the rights of a child of culturally Christian parents to be protected from equivalent parental abuse

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      1. Cultural Analysis‏ @Philosophy_Net Oct 26
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        The State has the tendency to do not enough where intervention is needed and too much where interests of the medical mafia are threatened. As Baudrillard said (yes, even postmodernists had valuable insights) “the system of survival must first take care of its own survival”.

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      2.  🎙️ᴅᴇᴀɴ (ЯF) ғɪʟᴇs 📝‏ @DeanOFiles Oct 26
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Surely you see how slippery that slope can be though, right? One person's "endangering" is another person's "letting the kid sit in your lap and think he's driving down a country road because it's fun."

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      3. zensea‏ @zensea Oct 26
        Replying to @DeanOFiles @HPluckrose

        that's where the problem lies unfortunately. But, at the end of the day your children are not your possessions. They are independent beings that you have been entrusted with to guide through adulthood in the hope they will contribute to society and make it a better place.

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      4.  🎙️ᴅᴇᴀɴ (ЯF) ғɪʟᴇs 📝‏ @DeanOFiles Oct 26
        Replying to @zensea @HPluckrose

        Is a parent responsible for the mistakes or outright wrongdoing of a 30 year old person? How about 25? 20? 18? 16? If parents are responsible for the wrongdoing of their children, as they are in most places, then children are not, in fact, individuals.

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      5. zensea‏ @zensea Oct 26
        Replying to @DeanOFiles @HPluckrose

        well in a rigid, very frightening world, yes parents would be responsible for their offspring's actions. Fortunately we don't live in such a rigid frightening world. Or a world bereft of nuance. still doesn't take away that your children are not your belongings though.

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      1. Starman in Elon's Roadster‏ @argentcorvus Oct 26
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        At the same time children really are not property of the state either. There is an extent to which parents have an inherent right to raise their children, but I agree with you about rights and protection of same.

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      1. Tyler Hernandez‏ @mereanarchy2 Oct 26
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        Giving more power to the state over children is NOT the answer. They have shown themselves incapable on multiple levels of protecting children.

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      1. Mr Graeme "Accepting Pickle" Booth  🎈‏ @graemebooth Oct 26
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        My girl is as free as she'd like to be. Unless she won't eat a good dinner. Oh boy. Full patriarchal tyranny. She's sitting the hell down and getting that bloody carrot in her bloody mouth

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      1. Archbirdist‏ @InriMagine Oct 26
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        >the state >protect choose one

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      1. steven isle‏ @damnthatcursor Oct 26
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Agreed. Parents choose to indoctrinate their children just at the time when they are vulnerable to persuasive influences.

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      1. Tat Loo‏ @Tat_Loo Oct 26
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        Just remember that the state has harmed more children in its care facilities than any parent has.

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      1. zensea‏ @zensea Oct 26
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I like you more and more as the days go on...

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      1. Skrawek the Exile‏ @itwoamond Oct 26
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Apparently, the State is God.

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      1. Václav Lacina‏ @GrueGoblin Oct 26
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Depends on definition of rights really. Separate children from (proven) criminal (maybe) parents in US and you'll have the "children in cages" narrative. On the other hand, in Norway the state will confiscate children for being informed their grandma died.

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      1. Skrawek the Exile‏ @itwoamond Oct 26
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        No one says that parents have a right to owning their children. Slavery is illegal. You are obviously being dishonest.

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      1. Oolon Colluphid‏ @0olon_Colluph1d Oct 26
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        You think good.

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