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| quote: | Originally posted by all-nite-freak
this thread stems not only from my job, but from my recent personal experiences as well as those of many close to me.I've seen this trend before this job, the job only served as the catalyst to ask these questions and make these statements in a thread
Linear thinking can sometimes always use the influence of a bend in the road to promote deeper and elaborate opinions |
I agree. Especially with the "sometimes always" part.
But seriously, I know lots of people whom I would say came from fucked up parents. Some of my best friends had terrible mothers and fathers, but dealing with that shit as children did not hurt their character - if anything, it has made them stronger.
Am I saying that we should let idiots have kids or that we should just let people do whatever they feel like doing all of the time? Of course not. But as it's been stated in this thread before, what are you really going to do about it? You can't stop people from having children and you can't ever entitle people to a perfect quality of living - you can try, and perhaps this effort is really the source of what goodness really exists in this world. The children may be our future, but a future unchallenged by the adversity of parental character flaws is an unprecedented one. Of course there is a line between physical/mental abuse and just plain 'bad parenting', but like I said, just because people have idiots for parents doesn't necessarily make them stupid, even if it sure seems to greatly enhance the odds.
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