Counterpoint: If you’ve spent much time around kids aged 6-14, you’ll understand that their freedom is the actual true enemy. Many of them spend every moment not in school (and in school, for that matter, but the wardens signed up for that) making life harder for the adults around them. Sure, there are LOTS of exceptions, but that’s the median.
Now if you argue “failure to recognize variance in ability and disposition, and the cheap or egalitarian drive to treat children as fungible” is the fundamental problem, I’ll gladly go along.
When a person is incarcerated for 8 hours every day, it’s previsible, and I’d say even fair, that they will make life harder for their jailors’ accomplices in their free time. The point ‘children are hurricanes’ fits both sides of the argument.
Anyway, I don’t believe that point to begin with. Sure, some children are like that, but nowhere near the majority.
This is also true for many people not in that age range. “Many people in a group will try to make life harder for those around them” isn’t much of an argument for incarceration. If it were, who would you permit to be free?
“If you’ve spent much time around kids aged 6-14, you’ll understand that their freedom is the actual true enemy. Many of them spend every moment making life harder for the adults around them”
I say:
“If you’ve spent much time around school-damaged adults, you’ll understand that they lost the comprehension of the word FREEDOM. Many of them spend every moment making life unbearable for children”
Amazingly, commandeering child’s mind, time and life are legal in 2021. We have not evolved yet.
Counterpoint: If you’ve spent much time around kids aged 6-14, you’ll understand that their freedom is the actual true enemy. Many of them spend every moment not in school (and in school, for that matter, but the wardens signed up for that) making life harder for the adults around them. Sure, there are LOTS of exceptions, but that’s the median.
Now if you argue “failure to recognize variance in ability and disposition, and the cheap or egalitarian drive to treat children as fungible” is the fundamental problem, I’ll gladly go along.
When a person is incarcerated for 8 hours every day, it’s previsible, and I’d say even fair, that they will make life harder for their jailors’ accomplices in their free time. The point ‘children are hurricanes’ fits both sides of the argument.
Anyway, I don’t believe that point to begin with. Sure, some children are like that, but nowhere near the majority.
This is also true for many people not in that age range. “Many people in a group will try to make life harder for those around them” isn’t much of an argument for incarceration. If it were, who would you permit to be free?
Me and thee. But that may be too many.
If someone says:
“If you’ve spent much time around kids aged 6-14, you’ll understand that their freedom is the actual true enemy. Many of them spend every moment making life harder for the adults around them”
I say:
“If you’ve spent much time around school-damaged adults, you’ll understand that they lost the comprehension of the word FREEDOM. Many of them spend every moment making life unbearable for children”
Amazingly, commandeering child’s mind, time and life are legal in 2021. We have not evolved yet.