On Feb 14, 10:51 am, Ignoramus21499 <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 21499.invalid> wrote: > On 2008-02-14, chrisv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ingoramus21499 wrote: > > >>Anyhow, my question is that of child rearing. I have a 6 year old. > > >>Should I tell him that "your dad is a pirate" or not? Would it hurt > >>him to know that his dad is a pirate? > > > Doesn't matter. In either case, he'll eventually figure-out that > > you're an immoral, thieving scumbag. . > Or, perhaps, he wil grow up to be a caring, sharing, person. . If he does, it will be in spite of your thieving ways, not because of it. What you almost certainly will raise is an entitled monster, who believes that he can take anything he feels like.
When a parent teaches that a certain kind of theft is acceptable, the child can only make the leap that ALL forms of theft are acceptable. After all, if it's OK to download, then why not shoplift a CD from Tower Video? And if it's OK to shoplife a CD, why not break into the neighbor's home to steal a computer? After all, property is theft, right? _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
