Implying that giving a child more choices for secure attachment is a refutation of its worth doesn't make sense.
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Replying to @rainaftersnopls @arthur_affect and
Implying that child-care professionals in this bureaucracy are necessarily trustworthy is mind-boggling.
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Replying to @spqtemple02 @rainaftersnopls and
I don't think ANYONE is implicitly, automatically trustworthy That's why I advocate giving children a choice of adults to trust
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spqtemple02 and
This is what horrifies people and gets them to yell at me for being a pedophile or a pedophile defender "Who else would encourage kids to go looking for an adult to run away to from their parents when they're mad at them" ...because they DO trust parents implicitly
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spqtemple02 and
(I have never advocated that the person be *me*, for the record, and would be very happy to never interact with a child again for the rest of my natural life)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @rainaftersnopls and
I wasn't going to accuse you of that, but I do think you're a bit naive about the kind of people who would pursue whatever profession it is that gets them consistently close to these kids in a nurturing relationship.
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Replying to @spqtemple02 @rainaftersnopls and
You don't think becoming a parent counts as pursuing such a profession?
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spqtemple02 and
Of course I'm suspicious of people who seek out professions where they have positions of power over children THAT'S WHY I'M SUSPICIOUS OF PARENTS
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spqtemple02 and
I'm EXTRA suspicious of parents because, out of all the professions where you have power over children, "parent" is the one with the MOST power and the least accountability
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Replying to @arthur_affect @rainaftersnopls and
That wouldn't be the case in your system. These professionals would be the most powerful.
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I'd have to give them a whole lot of power to make them as powerful as parents To the point where my system wouldn't be different at all from the status quo
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spqtemple02 and
seems to me this entire convo is doomed because one side is like "parents have too much power, it should be redistributed some", and the other side responds with "so you just want to make someone else/the state the parents?!" which is the opposite of what they said.
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Replying to @IamJadehawk @arthur_affect and
i guess people literally do not have the ability to imagine child care in any other context than the level of absolute power that's currently being granted to parents, so they interpret alternatives as just giving that power to others rather than not giving anyone that much power
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