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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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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Fiction books don't actually "prove" anything about psychology and social science because - brace yourself - they are made up
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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
If the man hadn't been such a coward we could know now what actual zombies are like.
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Man the way they keep talking about how attempts at good magic always get twisted to evil makes you wonder if it works in reverse, maybe good things will happen if you intentionally wish for bad things
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I've tried to cast a left-handed working to straight up kill someone I dislike out of spite so many times, but wouldn't you know it Nothing changes at all
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maybe you should try using your dominant hand instead
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It is true that as a right-handed male with no visible birthmarks and the normal number of nipples, God has cruelly denied me the power of witchcraft from birth
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
As a right-handed woman with multiple birthmarks, where the fuck is my magical power Oh that's right JK Rowling stole it off me
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