Wow. The updoinks… Such quality discourse and amazing insight!

How is this entire sub not considered a giant circle tug?

Did you miss all the book bannings by conservatives?

latimes.com/…/book-bans-soaring-schools-new-laws-…

Yeah. It’s only the conservatives doing it.

crosscut.com/…/kill-mockingbird-hot-seat-wa-schoo…

How about we let parents choose the schools and literature that their children read. No no no. Can’t do that. That would be fascist!

Yes, let’s also let parents decide what medicine they get instead of doctors. And decide when their kids should be able to drive, not the government.

I mean why let educated professionals get in the way?

Yes, let’s also let parents decide what medicine they get instead of doctors.

As a matter of fact, yes. As a parent, I have the responsibility to choose what medicines to allow my children to receive.

And decide when their kids should be able to drive, not the government.

Yep. If my 17 year old is too irresponsible to drive, I can choose to not let him.

Parents have the right to withhold anything they deem to be harmful to their children.

So if you decide you don’t want a medicine for your child because you think it causes cancer, even if it doesn’t, then you should be allowed to prevent him from taking it? Even if it kills him? No. No, that is a horrible idea.

And you think that you should control when your kid should drive too. Great, now irresponsible parents can ask 12 year olds to drive to the store for them? Endangering everyone around them? Another horrible idea.

Yes you can withhold things. But you don’t have absolute say. They are a person. If your choices would cause them harm, such as an improper education or not getting needed medication, then it’s the governments job to step in and protect that child.

“Improper education”. There is the crux of it. Your definition of improper may not be the same as mine. You think that you should be able to force other people’s children to be taught what you want them to be taught, according to your political and/or moral standards, through the force of government.

I want parents to be able to decide for their own children how they are taught. I think parents of a child know better how to raise that child than a government bureaucrat.

Tell me again how I’m the Nazi.