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JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Are you unfamiliar with the principal that things which are appropriate for adults are often not appropriate for children?

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  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m familiar with the sad fact that many people believe that. Knowledge should never be age restricted. If a kid doesn’t want to learn about, for example, sex, and finds it gross, that’s one thing. An entire society conspiring to keep them from knowing about it till they’re about 11 is quite another.

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How about restricting children from driving cars?

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    • sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, that’s why I’m completing fine with my kids watching online videos of ISIS prisoners being burnt to death in a dog cage.

      Can I ask if you have kids?

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      • pythonoob@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They’re probably 15

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      • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Given how responsibility for much of the violence in the world falls at the feet of the society that is deciding how to censor information from our kids, I find it quite appropriate that they have access to terrorist executions and cat killing videos.

        The US gives few fucks that such videos exist, or that our society was built on massacres and slavery. We just don’t want our kids to know the grim legacy that they’ve been given.

        Considering kids today are going to be middle aged when the climate crisis catches up to us, it raises questions of ethics what people were doing having kids in the first place.

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    According to the United States, it’s appropriate to imprison children for delinquency that is things that are criminal for children that are not criminal for adults.

    So no, I have little faith regarding what my society decides is right for kids.

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have no idea who you got from what I said to what you said, and I don’t want to.

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      • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The notion that some things may be inappropriate for kids is easly misused when it’s turned into a principle and as such we end up where the US is now, withholding civil rights from children and using child safety to push identity politics.

        I do hope you are not a parent.

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