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Not professionals. For example, we don't call a fast food server a professional, yet he is trained. Yes, a mother is constrained by having to look after her other children and the …

The term 'professional' is misleading, since (1) There's no such thing as a professional parent. It's a relationship. (2) Professionals have expertise in some domain, e.g. heart su…

>your circumstances Don't forget that those circumstances include the decision of whether or not to have children in the first place. >But please keep those opinions to yourself Th…

Nah, everybody used to think slavery was OK. Yet it wasn't. Plenty of people know they shouldn't smoke. Yet they do. Evolution is 'red in tooth and claw'. Let me re-formulate my ex…

Btw, "fundamentally wrong" is a misquote.

I'm not arguing that one-size-fits-all; there are many legitimate parenting styles. The books argue about these, and the article is right, we shouldn't worry. But daycare just isn'…

>“day care is morally wrong” as itself axiomatic Good people already know that daycare is bad, even those who use it, even though they can't explain. So yeah, it's axiomatic. >howe…

>puts the perfect in the way of the good No, that's what I'm arguing against. Parenting manuals are arguing minutiae while children are increasingly being brought up by strangers w…

'Uncontroversial statement' if they prefer. I'd be happy to nitpick with them provided they aren't murdering people or sending their babies to preschool. https://www.edge.org/respo…

Empirical evidence can't decide on moral issues. To complicate matters further most moral stuff can't be explained very well. For example, 'murder is wrong' is an uncontroversial m…

>we're all pursuing perfection via different techniques Yes, while often getting fundamentals wrong, e.g. there are millions of two year olds in day care .

If you read with your kids and don't get divorced then you've already done a great job I think.

>It's impossible for any scientific study to address all possible outcomes and the relationships between them Yes and even if there somehow were credible, reproducible studies that…

Violation of privacy?

Credentials and prizes are heading the way of the dodo because we're slowly realising that while neither knowledge nor significance can be measured our opinions can be swayed by pr…

>We know how human beings are supposed to live to be happy: small communities of stable relationships, with a lot of face to face time, ideally spending some of it outside doing so…

Yes it is possible to have your cake and eat it! Provided of course that you don't dine out too unhealthily and die before retirement age.

One problem that all cultures face is that of pecking order. Respecting the pecking order as animals gave us a lesser chance of death by violence within the species. But we've inhe…

I'd rather live with the Amish or with John Plant than potentially be arrested by my own house or car. The house would merely lock me in but the car would no doubt drive me to the …

Small reward now or larger reward later? In real life we might think: why can't I just have both ? Yet it frequently is a matter of 'either or' since the smaller reward robs me of …

>I would expect significant causal relationships between practicing the creation of music and ability in the creation of music, and between practicing audio discrimination and abil…

>James’s stance is clearly stated: “My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.” Assuming that free will does exist then if James hadn't believed in free will then …

Yes. I don't think one can escape from the fact that punishment and reward go hand-in-hand. By the contrast principle, absence of reward is logically equivalent to punishment. Even…