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In article <53jbg1$e1m@news2.cais.com>, Joe <no_email_spam@please> wrote:
!Trish <Trish@speedy.ehs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
!
!>>A line must be drawn somewhere; most people would agree the
!>>above examples represent such a place. However, what if I raise my
!>>kids to be snake handlers? Or worship Satan? It's a slippery slope.
!
!>  Indeed it is.  If you were to choose the above for them, 
!>then so be it.  My point is, while I may not find it 
!>personally to be a good choice, or rather a choice I would 
!>have made, it's not my place or anyone elses to tell you it's 
!>wrong for you and your's.
!
!That sounds good, but it's not exactly true.  Why isn't it anyone
!else's place to tell someone how to raise "their" kid?   Poorly-raised
!children eventually turn into maladjusted adults who cost our society
!untold billions in dollars and suffering.     Most of the carnage in
!our nation's cities is caused by people under the age of 18.
!
!It really does take a whole village to raise a child.  Because it only
!takes one child to destroy a whole village.

adults are legally responsible, both for their own behavior and that of their
minor children and other legal dependans.  if a child is taught to handle
snakes or to worship satan, not only are they not doing anything illegal, but
it still does not (yet) impinge on others; unless someone told you, you
wouldn't have any way to know when you encountered a snake handler or a
satanist.  if the child grows up and learns that society finds their beliefs
repugnant, they have several choices still: they can avoid such society in
general, they can change their beliefs, they can keep their beliefs secret,
or they can be confrontational.  only the last choice is likely to cause a
problem, and it is the choice to be confrontational, _not_ the core beliefs,
that is the source of the problem.
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