• gian @lemmy.grys.it
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    5 hours ago

    We have given away far too much of our parental responsibility over to 3rd parties, and now we don’t know how to parent anymore.

    A responsible parent can do as you say, but there are also not so much responsible parents out there, so maybe we need a backup option in these cases.

    • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      The problem with that is that you quickly become responsible for EVERYONE, and then you wind up right back where we are with government bureaucrats telling parents how to raise their children.

      If a law or rule can be used to harass otherwise good people, then it will be.

      If you give some self-important bastard an inch, they’ll take a mile. Just look at the police.

      • gian @lemmy.grys.it
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        3 minutes ago

        The problem with that is that you quickly become responsible for EVERYONE, and then you wind up right back where we are with government bureaucrats telling parents how to raise their children.

        Ok, so do you think it is better to not be responsible for nodoby ? Good, as long as you are prepared to pay the consequences of this, both at personal level and a social level.

        If a law or rule can be used to harass otherwise good people, then it will be.
        If you give some self-important bastard an inch, they’ll take a mile. Just look at the police.

        Sadly true, but this do not means that we should not have laws.