the guy on here who wouldn't help his kid get lunch for six hours because he was working on a puzzle is a good example of how parents have tyrannical power which they can abuse in large ways or small.1
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but parents can just be assholes to their kids in lots of ways, and again the kids have basically no recourse. any parent could do what this guy did.
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or parents can strike their kids to teach them a lesson. or throw them out of the house.
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it's not immediately obvious how you deal with that or mitigate it. but you certainly aren't going to mitigate it if you don't admit it's a problem.
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people are calling this child abuse, which seems excessive probably—but the thing is there's a huge range of things you can do to torment children that don't rise to what we generally consider child abuse.
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and those things and the justification for them are also how child abuse is justified.
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like, this guy is saying, "i'm just doing normal stuff to teach my kid a lesson!" and yeah, normal stuff that parents do to teach their kids lessons is often really unreasonable and cruel if you think about it for a minute.
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Honestly I think a large part of the negative reaction was just that parenting is put on a weirdly high pedastal in a modern social context. Like "concerned parents" get so much free reign to say absolutely nonsensical stuff
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i believe wholeheartedly this is correct and wish more people realized this. on the other hand, so many of your takes on other subjects have been so blitheringly stupid that i'm reluctant to agree with you too much about it.
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Bessel Van der Kolk says (from memory) approx 25% of kids in the US have received some form of abuse. He says it’s a hidden epidemic. I don’t advocate the Govt. interfering in people’s home lives but we should really try and teach that this authoritarian bullshit is harmful.
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