this is literally the problem. parents don't even face minimal moral disapprobation for most abuses. people think the very idea of parents having power over children is funny, much as John Adams found it funny when his wife suggested men had power over women.https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1338634504697749504 …
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parents can take their kid's phones; spy on them; lock them in the house; forbid them to see SO's (queer or otherwise); refuse to help them with college; kick them out of the house. there's hardly even a social consensus that any of that is bad.
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Replying to @nberlat
I think ”Lord of the Flies” addresses what happens when kids aren’t provided structure and discipline. I guess it’s fine Piggy got his skull crushed by a rock as long as the kids are able to do whatever they want unencumbered by their parent’s oppressive tyrany
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Replying to @GintheLou @nberlat
Fiction books don't actually "prove" anything about psychology and social science because - brace yourself - they are made up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
You would think this would be obvious but no The worst was when I had a Christian teacher read us the story "The Monkey's Paw" and then warn us that the story proved messing with the occult is no laughing matter
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
The steelman of this position is that people believe stories become popular and famous when the story "resonates" with many people and feels like it reflects reality Sure, that's as may be Those people can easily be wrong though
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Lot easier to make a million dollars telling people what they want to hear than telling people the truth (And people who wave around a book yelling "This book doesn't tell you what you want to hear, it tells the truth!" have obviously been told what they want to hear)
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