27-07-2023, 01:15 PM
Our children have very few rights, but a lot of Must Do things, which involve adults using various methods of coercion to achieve. From vaccinations, to clothing, to socialisation and education - any parent worth their salt understands this and does their damndest to make that coercion as gentle as possible.
Religion is coercion, education is coercion, heavens simply living in a community is rife with examples.
If you don't eat your meat, you won't get any pudding.
If you don't believe in God you'll end up in Hell.
If you don't play nice you won't have any friends.
If you don't go to school you won't get a good job.
If you don't get a job you'll end up on the streets.
Break the rules and you'll go to jail.
We are surrounded by coercion. Someone would have to be blind not to see it in every system we are surrounded with, cocooned within. It is how any community works.
Frankly, there are so many really bad coercive strategies imposed upon us that someone letting a kid pretend they are a cat is a pimple on the backside of something bigger than the planet...
So, go for it Kitty Kid, meow...
Religion is coercion, education is coercion, heavens simply living in a community is rife with examples.
If you don't eat your meat, you won't get any pudding.
If you don't believe in God you'll end up in Hell.
If you don't play nice you won't have any friends.
If you don't go to school you won't get a good job.
If you don't get a job you'll end up on the streets.
Break the rules and you'll go to jail.
We are surrounded by coercion. Someone would have to be blind not to see it in every system we are surrounded with, cocooned within. It is how any community works.
Frankly, there are so many really bad coercive strategies imposed upon us that someone letting a kid pretend they are a cat is a pimple on the backside of something bigger than the planet...
So, go for it Kitty Kid, meow...