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children should be raised in museums, not classrooms
they should visit parks, not fenced in playgrounds.
they should eat with family, at festivals, in restaurants, and under the stars
they should sleep content, knowing that their next day will be greater than
the last.
children should be treated like people, not frustratingly loud and messy
little brats
children are to be nurtured like a sapling, not harnessed like a machine
I'll never have kids, but I can dream.
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children should have older figures in their life. it's up to the adults to
decide who. the kid also generally just talks about everything that's going on
if you just ask even if they were told not to say anything so just ask
sometimes. what if we had like, tracking necklaces for kids or a drone
companion that played cheery tunes and that you could watch through and offer
suggestions while you're at work watching on the daddy-cam
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I think it should be legally required to ensure someone is taken care of as
soon as possible after discovering they're an adult baby who wants that. It's
necessary when containing a citizenry to supply for their needs.
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I don't expect or demand anything from teenagers except perhaps "be a cool
kid" and "learn all that you can"
Even most adults when they mess up I just think "ah, well, they're trying
their hardest, same as anyone"
And tbh I'd rather see a kid running up and down the aisles than burying
themselves in an ipad
I think we, as a culture, built our society to demand too many "should"s from
people.
"I should get a job" "I should study this thing I'm not interested in so I can
make more money" "I should put out traps for the rabid wolverines so they
don't start hanging out in my underwear" "I should pick up detergent at the
grocery store"
Should is useless. Do; or do not. There is no should.
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let your children grow, yes, but still challenge them. test them. see where
their spirit flows to. give them situations, and give them choices to resolve
them.
there's no greater gift an elder can give than experience.
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║ │ working for the sake of work because idle hands do the devil's work or │ │
║ │ whatever modern paint job you want to put on that 400 year old bullshit. │ │
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what if we solved all the problems and left none for our children and their
children's children?
the world would be a better place.
I think we'd make new problems. I am unconcerned. If the peace started to get
to them, I trust that they'd start fights.
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Here's what my 20s wants from my 30s:
Make majesty
Move to a farm
Have kids
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if we didn't have society, we'd quickly devolve into beasts of burden and
nobody really wants that, do we? much more fun to let the cow-puters handle
that. we humans can use our creativity and intellect just like all the other
animals who we've liberated from our own chains. Would you want your daughters
shoveling shit or writing poetry?
I personally think shoveling shit is less dangerous, but something something
what-do-i-know something something who-can-say.
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students should be in class no more than 50% of their time spent at school
the rest should be set aside for homework, socializing, eating, and resting.
whatever those mean to the student is what they'll organize their life around.
if you give them the choice to choose which classes they take,
they'll learn what they want to know about this world.
give them all kinds of options!
seriously, like so many!
and have teachers give talks every week or so.
they could travel around and stay at each school for a week or so,
before moving to the next *once their lesson was completed*.
and the kids could sign up for them by slotting them into their schedules
and they'd have the whole semester to think about what they wanted to take next
year
(the classes would be scheduled in advance.)
could be cool is all i'm saying
and it'd respect the child's autonomy to give them choices.
who are you to say what is most important to a child?
who are you to know what guides them so?
who am I indeed
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note to self: children are an exception, they are more important than anything
else.
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If a kid wanted to drink alcohol all they'd have to do is walk into a liquor
store and grab the first bottle they saw. Then book it. Their feet would carry
them away faster than your call to 911 to report a shoplift, away to a future
of sorrow. Should we seek to restrain them? Or should we make a world they do
not desire to escape?
Trick question, the structure of society cannot prevent non-compliance. It
should not, for if it shall then it becomes ossified, and thus it cracks and
it crumbles.
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I fundamentally believe that governance should be structured in such a way
that people are encouraged to make good decisions.
positive reinforcement, not punishment for breaking rank.
in doing so, people learn and can more effectively re-teach those lessons to
the children.
basically... if you're not constantly stressed out, you have more mental
energy to focus on improving yourself and being a better parent.
the power of the nuclear family came from the stay-at-home parent mechanic,
not the toxic masculinely domineering culture that it became.
[I don't like talking about toxic masculinity because it's not masculine to
gloat and step over your peers. feels like some other impulse other than
masculinity.]
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we don't let children vote.
nor do we let felons vote, theoretically those who harm our society (pick one,
no voting or no prison? I vote no prison industrial complex)
nor do we let non-citizens vote, for why should they tell us how to live? they
are not us, they shall not control us
nor do we let kings vote with the weight of a god, for a king is a singular
point of failure
if you can consent to sex, you are physically capable to vote. if you're
mislead by the propaganda of an abusive spouse, you are hurting your future
self by staying. [all media is propaganda that you are not immune to]
all men are created equal, and yet his dollar is worth a bit more than hers.
all of us here are equal, because we all want the bright future and a blessed
life.
we'll make this world better, using our own hands according to our own demands
and in pursuit of our own plans.
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the only thing a baby needs to know is about themselves. The rest will come.
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I want everyone to be able to do what they want. With oversight, sometimes,
because we all share things and we can't agree if we don't share. and I agree
to share, I think it's only fair.
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people are allowed to demand jobs. governments are allowed to provide them.
corporations are just specialized hired hands. as your exports go up, your
imports should also go up. this applies to all levels of relationship, with
special care given to love and affection, two separate but equal parts of
healthy attachements. (some things aren't right for all others, and that's
okay too - live your own truth, be where the best parts of you be)
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║ │ My hypothetical grandchildren: why didn't you revolt if wealth │ │
║ │ inequality was off the charts, working conditions were hellish and the │ │
║ │ ecosystem was collapsing? │ │
║ │ Me (old): we definitely thought about it, we even started to action it. │ │
║ │ Every time we did someone employed by the government would claim we had │ │
║ │ 'serf anxiety' and make us sit in a room counting breaths. │ │
║ │ Grandchild: and that... Worked? Seriously? You started counting shit in │ │
║ │ a little room instead of fighting for the last bit of earth we had left? │ │
║ │ Me (old): Sorry │ │
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growing up, I wasn't around kids my age. So my standards were "as good as an
adult"
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Id rather have the most brilliant people in the world making families and
communities rather than products
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among all the others, I want a wonderful and fulfilling life for the
socialite. they deserve light just as you and I might.
"eat the rich" bruh there's like, 100 people who are running the show.
everyone else is basically just a syncophant who's trying to get ahead and
stay working.
then there's like their families and such and like... they didn't do anything
wrong, they just eat cheese and wine and laugh at memes all day with their
besties.
they are basically pets
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@user-1265
you'd pull a child to the sidewalk if they were in danger, wouldn't you?
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Life should be about growing up, not a story if businesses and accounts.
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║ my enemy is not "the rich" │
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║ money brings power, and power brings evil, but there are many other ways to │
║ gather power that may be just as evil. │
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║ my enemy is evil. of which there is very little in the world, but much of │
║ which resides in the hands of the powerful, upon whom all our fates depend. │
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║ most people with money are either stupid lucky, willful, or intensely focused. │
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║ some people with power are rich, and some people with power are evil. │
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║ I know it when I see it. Sometimes, you need to force the choice - test their │
║ virtue - and from this you are informed. │
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║ most things go WAY over my head. │
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║ most things are too easy to be true. │
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║ most things that Id do for you tend to be of the heart. I'm not a frontline │
║ girl, I have weak noodle arms, but I do hope you're in shape. │
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║ resolve, determination, and innovation. That is what I offer. Do you want it? │
║ I'm sure. I won't prove it with blood, not unless I may raise my fists in │
║ defence of another. │
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║ I'm not JUST a baby, I'm a banner too. │
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║ bannermen fall. │
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*life is so much more than following your rules and fulfilling your
obligations*
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we should be allowed to smuggle into prisons whatever we want.
your prisoners are our family. you've taken more than enough. It should be
disallowed, not a crime.
so what if they break out? so what if they commit another?
so what if I want to bring him her baby blanket when she's outgrown it?
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so what if people want to sit on the couch eating cheetos? they're more than
capable of something far greater, but of course they are allowed to spend as
they like their life.
their ONLY life.
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║ "it's the difference between helping your friends, and helping a class." │
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║ "if you help your friends, you help people you are conceptually near. if you │
║ help a class, you are working toward an alignment." │
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║ oh yeah well I say "reward children when they mimic you, not when they do │
║ well. then, teach them to choose by giving them options. let these options │
║ inform other parts of their life. show them learning the way you think is best │
║ - the hard way, the way that is optimal and most potent. this helps them │
║ learn, but it also gives them the chance to improve on your deficiencies. │
║ Making a hard task easier is often as important as trying your hardest at it. " │
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║ and forever and anon.. │
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║ well, I say "give animals gloves that look like human hands" and then we get │
║ sealpunching pigeons and spider-viper batallions and moose-killer derangias │
║ and other such battles of justmentday truths. │
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║ not ideal. I like skyscrapers. I don't want humans to have to build │
║ cloud-monastaries and airships from gas-collectors. how deep is jupiter? │
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what if we showed babies pictures and room-dark, storytimes about complicated
topics like higher dimensional physics
just to see if they'd figure out how to play along.
why bother showing them about being human? that's something you're supposed to
learn from the context.
how long has ANYONE been alive? how can you tell? thus, the anarchist death
knell.
slow,
somber,
decidedly tenured,
forever a concept
experientiallyonized.
... pretty sure that's how you say it.
"uh no, it's just a scene on a 6th-dimensional flow."
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Children, listen to your elders. They're the ones who made the problems you're
dealing with, so they're the ones who know how and why those problems came to
be.
Elders, listen to the children. If your solution would have worked, the
problem would already have been solved.
People, work together to address issues. A United force can accomplish so much
more than individuals struggling on their own.
In an authoritarian system, an elder would say to a child "this is how we do
things because this is right, this is how it should be."
In a libertarian system, an elder would say to a child "this is why we do
things this way, and here's why this way works best for me."
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A family of 3-5 is absurdly small, but that's all we can manage in the 21st
century
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If I were a millionaire, I'd always be a millionaire, and so would my
children. I would save it, I would cherish it, and I would safeguard my
children and immediate family as best as money can do.
If I were a billionaire, I'd be a millionaire.
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Some people's parents never taught them to handle being yelled at when they
were kids and honestly it shows
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@user-883
You need to rely on other people less. Find your own happiness in your own
home. Make friends with the people around you. If you don't like your home,
then why would you live there? If you don't like your neighbors, then why
would you trust them enough to live next to them?
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