Should you feel guilty if your children watch TV all the time? Probably.

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Get them to grind gold i world of warcraft, its cleaner and may earn
more!

Our standard of living is a bit higher than a Chinese teenager's. :-(


Hm, well they may have to work a bit harder at it. But hey, its killing
orcs - what's not to love

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requires lots of TV time, that's fine.

Or not - there are studies which suggest it damages the natural
cognitive development of the children.

Yes, but if you choose to do that to your kids, that's on you.

Or society who doesn't care who has children - competent or not.

Well, I'd rather that than some government bureaucrat deciding who can
have kids and who can't.

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requires lots of TV time, that's fine.

Or not - there are studies which suggest it damages the natural
cognitive development of the children.

Yes, but if you choose to do that to your kids, that's on you.

Or society who doesn't care who has children - competent or not.

A society that truly celebrates diversity will also celebrate the diverse
ways in which parents raise its children.

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Pete B wrote:

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requires lots of TV time, that's fine.

Or not - there are studies which suggest it damages the natural
cognitive development of the children.

Yes, but if you choose to do that to your kids, that's on you.

Or society who doesn't care who has children - competent or not.

Well, I'd rather that than some government bureaucrat deciding who can
have kids and who can't.


Its your own fault if you let government bureaucrats make laws.

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"Pete B" wrote in message
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requires lots of TV time, that's fine.

Or not - there are studies which suggest it damages the natural
cognitive development of the children.

Yes, but if you choose to do that to your kids, that's on you.

Or society who doesn't care who has children - competent or not.

A society that truly celebrates diversity will also celebrate the diverse
ways in which parents raise its children.

Indeed, such a society welcomes new religious fanatics, killers,
criminals, murderers.

Diversity - more ways to subpress thy enemy.

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"Pete B" wrote in message
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requires lots of TV time, that's fine.

Or not - there are studies which suggest it damages the natural
cognitive development of the children.

Yes, but if you choose to do that to your kids, that's on you.

Or society who doesn't care who has children - competent or not.

A society that truly celebrates diversity will also celebrate the diverse
ways in which parents raise its children.

Indeed, such a society welcomes new religious fanatics, killers,
criminals, murderers.

We have to accept that we will create villains. The alternative is one
prescribed way for doing everything, which you may have noticed doesn't work
so well in that it creates one omnipotent villain (usually the state) rather
than many relatively ineffectual ones.

Diversity - more ways to subpress thy enemy.

One of the assumptions inherent in valuing diversity is that sub-optimal
ways of dealing with whatever will fall by the wayside as the more optimal
methods tend to demonstrate their effectiveness simply by being successful.
Note how few people beat their children nowadays! :-)

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:31:59 +0100, Pete B
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Pete B wrote:

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requires lots of TV time, that's fine.

Or not - there are studies which suggest it damages the natural
cognitive development of the children.

Yes, but if you choose to do that to your kids, that's on you.

Or society who doesn't care who has children - competent or not.

Well, I'd rather that than some government bureaucrat deciding who can
have kids and who can't.


Its your own fault if you let government bureaucrats make laws.

You have eliminated all the options.

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"Pete B" wrote in message
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"Pete B" wrote in message
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requires lots of TV time, that's fine.

Or not - there are studies which suggest it damages the natural
cognitive development of the children.

Yes, but if you choose to do that to your kids, that's on you.

Or society who doesn't care who has children - competent or not.

A society that truly celebrates diversity will also celebrate the diverse
ways in which parents raise its children.

Indeed, such a society welcomes new religious fanatics, killers,
criminals, murderers.

We have to accept that we will create villains. The alternative is one
prescribed way for doing everything, which you may have noticed doesn't work
so well in that it creates one omnipotent villain (usually the state) rather
than many relatively ineffectual ones.

Are you sure its not the incompetency and greed of the state which
causes it to fail?


Diversity - more ways to subpress thy enemy.

One of the assumptions inherent in valuing diversity is that sub-optimal
ways of dealing with whatever will fall by the wayside as the more optimal
methods tend to demonstrate their effectiveness simply by being successful.
Note how few people beat their children nowadays! :-)

I thought that was fear of being tortured in jail more than anything!

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On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:31:59 +0100, Pete B
wrote:

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Pete B wrote:

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requires lots of TV time, that's fine.

Or not - there are studies which suggest it damages the natural
cognitive development of the children.

Yes, but if you choose to do that to your kids, that's on you.

Or society who doesn't care who has children - competent or not.

Well, I'd rather that than some government bureaucrat deciding who can
have kids and who can't.


Its your own fault if you let government bureaucrats make laws.

You have eliminated all the options.

No you did that.

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Pete B wrote:

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Pete B wrote:

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requires lots of TV time, that's fine.

Or not - there are studies which suggest it damages
the natural cognitive development of the children.

Yes, but if you choose to do that to your kids, that's on you.

Or society who doesn't care who has children - competent or not.

Well, I'd rather that than some government bureaucrat
deciding who can have kids and who can't.


Its your own fault if you let government bureaucrats make laws.

I didn't realize it was up to me. Cool.