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As a parent, that's my take as well. If my kids break a law, I should be the one to fix it. Don't do my parenting for me...

I feel like I'm standing between two really stupid positions here.

On the one hand, just let parents teach their kids is basically a state's rights argument. A lot of parents won't teach their kids, so... do we care? Does this matter? We should probably mount a stronger effort then.

On the other hand, we don't need the government to get involved to stop 9 year olds from seeing titties—we just don't! Websites the world over have implemented 2-factor-authentication more or less by themselves (~~and probably because they want to spy on you~~). And, no one says the word r----- anymore because if you ever do, a bunch of anti-bullying PSAs will be really annoying about it in your replies.

Not every social problem needs to be solved by swinging around Thor's hammer. We do have other means.

this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2025
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