On 5/31/2010 5:09 PM, William Robb wrote:
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.
True.
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).
Also true.
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.
Well, that's disputable, but it would be a general ethics dispute, which I think we might want to avoid, at least on list.
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.
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