10-19-2016, 03:41 PM
Raising a child to be a competent adult is a legitimate activity. What says that the welfare system couldn't give bigger incentives for doing better for one's kids? Maybe you want Mommy to watch Sesame Street with her kids and react to it instead of watching some reality TV. Maybe you want her to take her child on an outing to the zoo. Music lessons? Expensive -- but well worth the cost, in view of what music lessons do for later performance in mathematics and science.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.