On 31/05/2010 4:59 AM, Boris Liberman wrote:
By saying that parents have to make minute-by-minute decisions you
actually assign quite a lot to the parents. Modern society goes very
long way to make one's life easier, so to say. And here you are asking
parents to make minute-by-minute decisions... I don't think it is too
liberal, you know.
Life is about making minute by minute decisions. Get behind the wheel of
a car and make the wrong decision (or no decision) while traveling
120KPH on a freeway and see where you end up.
It's part of what we call taking responsibility for your chosen activity.
If two people are going to engage in unprotected sex, they stand a good
chance of becoming parents (presuming heterosexual activity).
This puts the onus on those people to make minute by minute decisions
for the life they have created, be it deciding who is going to do the
2:00 AM feeding to who is going to change the diapers at 3:00, to who is
going to drop the kid off at the daycare.
If they have a concern about not being able to make a correct decision
in regard to the latter, then they should either have used birth control
or perhaps look into buying some sort of monitoring device that will
remind them that they have a kid in a car seat when they exit the vehicle.
The point is, that the onus is on the parent to look after their child
in a way that is consistent with ensuring that child grows up to
adulthood and becomes a contributing member of society.
It's not my responsibility to do that unless I put myself in a position
where it becomes my responsibility (becoming a teacher for example).
I would even disagree that it is my responsibility to get involved in a
child being locked in a hot car, in that the law should have no right to
force me to get involved, either by actively coercing me by saying I
have to, or passively coercing me by charging me with negligence for not
doing so.
And the state certainly has no right whatsoever to force me to subsidize
parents by spreading the cost of a device across every car sold that
will remind them that they had sex last year.
I find it galling enough that as a non parent my tax dollars are being
spent on subsidized day care or school taxes.
William Robb
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