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It’s by far the most important factor. Who are you to say it isn’t?
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If the current functioning is it doing "the best it can", the whole thing should be burnt to the ground.
to be replaced with what? i'm all for making changes that are an improvement, but just burning it to the ground for the sake of it with no end game is not an improvement
At this point, I would not be surprised if having two judges per case, randomly selected from the community, from parents who have successfully had at least three children leave the nest while still remaining on speaking terms, was a more reliable method of justice.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the current functioning is it doing "the best it can", the whole thing should be burnt to the ground.
to be replaced with what? i'm all for making changes that are an improvement, but just burning it to the ground for the sake of it with no end game is not an improvement
A system that does not incarcerate anyone for any reason would be much preferable to the atrocities that are the current criminal justice systems in most of the global west (and especially of course the United States).
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It’s by far the most important factor. Who are you to say it isn’t?
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I can certainly see the other side of this argument though, it feels very unfair to saddle a third party with the responsibility to support a child they had no part in making.
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The welfare of someone else’s child doesn’t register very highly on a majority of people’s radars beyond basic humanitarian considerations. How about government provided daycare and forcing the mother to work.
Possession is nine tenths of the law. It's not someone else's child if it's in your house and you need a genetic test to deny responsibility. This idea that bloodlines are relevant is anachronistic superstition. Several of my friends are not genetically related to their children. It's simply not relevant.
Adopting is no big deal. Being cuckolded is generally considered one of the biggest betrayals in the human experience. It's incredibly relevant to know if your spouse is faithful to you!
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If the state decides that it is better for a child, of no relation to you, to be taken out of foster care and you are now their legal guardian: you would be happy with this turn of events? You have a job presumably, surely that would be better than foster care or an orphanage.
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The justice system does the best it can with the information it has. It is far from perfect. It makes horrible mistakes all the time. The problem, of course, is improving it without knock-on effects making it worse. There are huge swaths of people doing the work required to make it better, every day. It's not as easy as turning a dial from "bad" to "good"
If the current functioning is it doing "the best it can", the whole thing should be burnt to the ground.
> A system that does not incarcerate anyone for any reason would be much preferable
surely you don't actually believe that? I don't think the result of this is just 0 false positives. The result of that is a lot more crime, and a lot more injustice.
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If the parent is abusive, trying to get their cooperation in fixing the problem may be an effective means to out them. They had absolutely no reason to believe I was abusing him. Most likely, they were just trying to cover their own butts and err in that direction rather than in the direction of "what's best for this child?" That's without getting into larger concerns of "What on earth is wrong with the world that a…
I’m not questioning anything about your story. I’m just curious: what types of “junk food” were they recommending?
They routinely recommend pro inflammatory foods like peanut butter. It's an inflammatory condition.
They recommend sugary foods. It's a condition that puts one at high risk of diabetes.
They recommend ice cream as a high fat, high calorie food. It's a condition that predisposes people to having trouble tolerating milk and milk products, especially from cows.
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#80Oh. And I thought that reddit outrage over the video of a father throwing his son in the air was just your standard modern hyperprotectiveness. Actually, the father risked lawsuit as it stands. The lack of common sense (and knowledge of physics) is off-putting.