do you think 16 year olds should vote? lots of people don't.
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Replying to @nberlat @ChrisJKennedy
Do you think 15 year olds should vote? Do you think 14 year olds should vote? Do you think 13 year olds should vote? Do you think 12 year olds should be able to enter contracts? It's arbitrary but necessary. Children shouldn't be burdened with such responsibilities and freedom.
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If I actually believed all or even most kids had parents who were genuinely both willing and able to look out for their interests on their behalf it would be much easier for me to agree with you
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So what, now you're generally suspicious of parental rights and responsibilities in general? I really don't get the point here.
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Replying to @spqtemple02 @arthur_affect and
I'm more skeptical of the presumption that parents have kids best interests at heary
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Replying to @mxanthropology @arthur_affect and
I'm skeptical of the assumption that random strangers and bureaucrats are any more likely to know what's right and good for my future child than I am unless I become an abusive scumbag unable to adequately provide for them.
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Replying to @mxanthropology @arthur_affect and
Pretty weird that you bestow some sort of inherent trust on others based solely on their lack of blood relation to a child that you don't afford parents. Why do you think Jimmy down the street knows what's better for my child than I?
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Replying to @spqtemple02 @mxanthropology and
No, nobody argued that the problem with people being parents is the blood relation, and that therefore you could solve the problem by randomly reassigning children from their blood parents to other parents It's the institution of "parents" that's the problem
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mxanthropology and
So it's like I said in my other reply; you share similar ideals of child-rearing with the early Soviets?
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I don't have a ready policy solution to hand but I am extremely suspicious of anyone who claims some sort of natural moral right to power over another human being and would push incrementally for any policy solutions in our society that erode such rights
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