I'm not.
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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @spqtemple02 and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @mxanthropology and
You realize that most parents aren't emotionally or physically abusive right? I'm not sure the exact context of where and how you grew up but your anecdotal experience clearly shapes the way you see this issue the same as mine does for me.
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Replying to @spqtemple02 @mxanthropology and
I do not "realize" this, and I think if we were fully honest about the definition of abuse, especially emotional abuse, you'd quite likely get a simple majority of abusive parents looking at the population as a whole
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But even that isn't necessary for my argument You don't have to be an abusive parent to be a BAD parent
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