RE: are you left,right or centre?
January 1, 2010 at 5:51 pm
(This post was last modified: January 1, 2010 at 5:55 pm by Violet.)
(January 1, 2010 at 12:29 pm)Tiberius Wrote: The government shouldn't have any say over how parents decide to bring up their children, as long as they don't violate human rights. A parent has as much right to homeschool their child as another has to pay for the very best education.
If a parent wants their child to succeed, they should think about putting money aside for their children. Why should taxpayers have to pay for the lazy or the stupid? Same reason why welfare is such a disgusting system.
So a parent has the right to brainwash their children, or condition them however they please, so long as it doesn't interfere with 'human rights'? Do parents have the right to not educate their children at all as well then? Or are we holding a double standard in this case, where the best is allowed, and a little is allowed, but nothing is not allowed?
What are 'human rights' in this case? Parents do not own a child... they are the assigned guardians for the child until the child no longer needs such a guardian, or the guardians have failed in their duty. To suggest that a child is legal property of another (and is forced to obey that other as a result of this ownership) is literally slavery, unless a child is not a person? A guardian's purpose is to keep those they are assigned to safe whilst they do what they do, and to provide counsel to the assigned individual so that unnecessary danger can be avoided (assignee willing).
I do not see why a person should be the property of anything or anyone. Can you explain to me why slavery should be supported in any case at all?
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day