Would you approve of a man killing a child which his wife recently gave birth to, without the mother’s permission, on the grounds that he does not believe himself to be the child’s father? That’s certainly not sadism.
Or, if genetic testing has been done and the child’s biological father is known, would you say it should be legal for the father to kill the child… say, because he disagrees with the married couple’s religious beliefs and wants to deny them an easy recruit?
How would you define “parent,” then? It’s not a tangent, it’s an important edge case. I’m trying to understand exactly where our views on the issue differ.
For what it’s worth, I agree with you unreservedly on the age discrimination thing. In fact, I think it’s the root of a lot of the current economic problems: a majority of the population is essentially being warehoused during their formative years, and then expected to magically transform into functional, productive adults afterward.
Would you approve of a man killing a child which his wife recently gave birth to, without the mother’s permission, on the grounds that he does not believe himself to be the child’s father? That’s certainly not sadism.
Or, if genetic testing has been done and the child’s biological father is known, would you say it should be legal for the father to kill the child… say, because he disagrees with the married couple’s religious beliefs and wants to deny them an easy recruit?
How would you define “parent,” then? It’s not a tangent, it’s an important edge case. I’m trying to understand exactly where our views on the issue differ.
For what it’s worth, I agree with you unreservedly on the age discrimination thing. In fact, I think it’s the root of a lot of the current economic problems: a majority of the population is essentially being warehoused during their formative years, and then expected to magically transform into functional, productive adults afterward.