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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Replying to @spqtemple02 @mxanthropology and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @mxanthropology and
I'd fight that push tooth and nail. I'm not in favour of a society in which children are all effective wards of the state raised in a context in which their figures of authority hold only extremely tenuous power over them. Children are individuals, but they're not independent.
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Replying to @spqtemple02 @mxanthropology and
Yeah so we're implacable enemies on this issue, I think we already knew that
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I think if you knew how fucking common it was in the community I came from for kids to have their dads beat the shit out of them you might feel differently, but hey, maybe not -- those dads all thought they were good parents too I don't actually care
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