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 wish I had 250k in student loans.” “Granted. But now you’re a leading cardio doctor in America who makes 900k a year and the hospital paid off your loans!”
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It's definitely a risky scheme.
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It's like the old joke about the guy who's given three wishes but everything he gets his greatest enemy will get double, to teach him to let go of his envy
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So after his enemy gets $200 million and meets two women who are the love of his life he wishes for one of his kidneys to swell up and painfully explode
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LMAO
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