This Has to Stop

[Homeless Nutter]

[...]I don't think we can really blame someone for being honest and teaching their kids what they think is true to the best of their own understanding.

That's obviously not true. We can blame the so-called "Christian Scientists", who teach their children to avoid medicine, because of their delusions. We can blame those, who lead their children into becoming suicide bombers - also because of their deeply held belief in magic. Hey, we can even blame those religious prudes, who deny their kids proper sexual education and access to contraceptives, which results - among other things - in increased occurrence of unprotected sex and generally risky sexual behaviors among frustrated, misinformed teens, not to mention unwanted pregnancies...

We can and do blame parents for forcing harmful beliefs onto their offspring. Sure - stunting your children intellectually may be not quite as dramatically and obviously wrong as the above examples, but there's still some fault there, especially if you limit your children's potential in order to stop them from becoming smarter and more educated than you and able to think for themselves. Or if you do it, because you think it'll stop them from masturbation (it won't , by the way).

Unfortunately - for the time being - people, who hold at least some irrational and/or harmful religious beliefs are in the majority in most societies, which is why those societies don't yet openly condemn stupid people, who pass their stupidity onto the captive minds of their children. Besides, for a while still we'll need people to dig ditches and flip Big Macs for less than a living wage - and we clearly don't want those people to be dark-skinned, or otherwise foreign - so perhaps it's a good thing, that certain people handicap their kids in terms of intellect and education...