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Re:Giving kids no autonomy at all has become a parenting norm by imknewhere on Monday April 03, 2023 @10:13AM (#35423896)
What GP means (I imagine, anyway) is that your post has a whole bunch of words in it without really saying what you think. Because you haven't really staked out an opinion, after throwing up some serious-sounding phrases, the whole thing comes off as vaguely "both sides-y" and thus not very helpful?

I was confused about your post, too. What did you mean?

Re:Giving kids no autonomy at all has become a parenting norm by than3 on Monday April 03, 2023 @01:58PM (#35428454)
> thus not very helpful

Its helpful to those that understood it and in giving the necessary words people need for a time when they will need them. Those that have the faculties to understand it, did.

If you are unable to see anything wrong with where that behavior leads inevitably, you deserve the outcomes that are coming.

Make no mistake death is not uncommon when these types of systems fail towards their logical conclusion, if left to propagate forward unabated, the outcome is inevitable because its part of a cycle that's happened many times in the past with the same outcome.

This has happened before many times in history, and it will happen again. It will be much worse this time because so much of our population is wholly dependent on technological systems that will fail to deliver enough food when those societal failures occur.

If you can't see where this path of coercion, compulsion, and other intolerable acts have led us in the past, no amount of words will change that.

You would have to learn by experience and the downsides firsthand, and by then it would be too late to do or be anything other than a victim.

What odds do you give yourself or your children of survival when those failures occur and suddenly 8-12 billion have to subsist on practices that can only at their theoretical maxima serve 2 billion.

Re:Giving kids no autonomy at all has become a parenting norm by deanCommie on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:01PM (#35445158)
I just want to let you know that even if you believe in the words you are saying, these kind of hollow empty platitudes have historically been weaponized by bad faith agitators to either perpetuate or propagate abuse.

I already gave you one example: reactionaries appropriated those criticizing Trump's policies as "fascist" to call those that disagree with public health lockdowns as the same.

Likewise, your original terms of "flawed and self-defeating beliefs" and "mentally ill" are currently being weaponized by the same people to brandish transgender people as harmful ideologues.

Just thought you should know, in the slim hope that you don't. Because if you do, you either don't care or are doing it on purpose. Both of which are harmful.

Ultimately, you sound like AI-generated. You say a lot of words that individually have meaning without saying anything at all.