Children are the most mistreated group in the world

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Which group gets most mistreated in the world?

Children
3
75%
Women
0
No votes
Other Minorities
1
25%
Another Group (write-in)
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 4

Philosophy Explorer
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Children are the most mistreated group in the world

Post by Philosophy Explorer »

First of all, they must show obedience towards their parents at all times, even when they leave them (e.g. taking care of them through nursing homes and burials and other ways) so children are enslaved to their families through various means for a lifetime, even when children mature (in the US, beyond 17; beyond 16 with respect to public schooling).

Besides family slavery, as already indicated, children must attend public schooling (US 6 - 16) although home schooling would be a wrinkle to this, children are severely restricted from holding jobs, children are severely restricted from getting married, children can't vote; in fact it can be said that children are discriminated against. And children do get punished, getting the belt or spanked is not unheard of.

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Re: Children are the most mistreated group in the world

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that inevitable. children normally lack intelligence/knowledge than the average adults
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First the child has to survive drugs the mother puts in her body while pregnant. Then the fetus has to survive abortion. Soon after they have to survive infanticide. Presuming they get this far, then they have to survive societal abuse and parents who don't know how to be parents. Then they have to survive indoctrination for some reason called education. Kids have it rough.
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Re: Children are the most mistreated group in the world

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The vulnerable have always been mistreated, be they children, women, those with disabilities, those who are isolated, LGBTQ, and so on.

In nature, juveniles are most at risk. In many human cultures the situation is much the same. The advantage of being a child, though, is that at least you won't always be a child, a different situation to many whose characteristics make them a target for life. The major disadvantage for children is lack of life experience (and the time process those experiences).

Certainly old, conservative men in high places have a tendency to routinely pass laws aimed at controlling youths, with precious few compensatory provisions to keep them entertained. Eventually it is hoped that society will realise that one narrow way of living only works for those in the bulge of the Bell Curve and that it doesn't work for the rest of us.

Ultimately children are the victims of the increasing tendency to withhold help from vulnerable families. However, in punishing parents for failing to be successful in life their children become collateral damage.
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Re: Children are the most mistreated group in the world

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I disagree with your claim. Evolutionary biology tells us why it is false. Parents have half their DNA in their children, and are biologically designed to want their children to be successful in having children of their own someday. This is why parents will often sacrifice their own financial well-being to support a child. Now, it is true that not all parents take good care of their children, but, in the vast majority of cases, they do, and are biologically wired to do so. This is why Trump, for example, allowed his children to head billion-dollar companies, whereas if they were not related to him, they would be far lower in the chain-of-command. People don't even think twice about Trump favoring his kids, because this is what people expect parents to do for their children.
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