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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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>the state >protect choose one
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Agreed. Parents choose to indoctrinate their children just at the time when they are vulnerable to persuasive influences.
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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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I like you more and more as the days go on...
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Apparently, the State is God.
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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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No one says that parents have a right to owning their children. Slavery is illegal. You are obviously being dishonest.
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You think good.
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