If refraining from bedtime reading is bad for an individual child but good for society (so that they all may suffer equally), where does one stop?
Perhaps parents should think twice about preparing nutritious meals.
Clean clothes? Out of the question.
School attendance? Optional.
In their teens, restrictions on alcohol and drug use? Nope.
Personal responsibility, such as learning to show up on time for work or school? Get serious.
Yes, society will be better if all parents withhold anything that might help their children do better in school, work or life in general. Equity at its finest.
If refraining from bedtime reading is bad for an individual child but good for society (so that they all may suffer equally), where does one stop?
Perhaps parents should think twice about preparing nutritious meals.
Clean clothes? Out of the question.
School attendance? Optional.
In their teens, restrictions on alcohol and drug use? Nope.
Personal responsibility, such as learning to show up on time for work or school? Get serious.
Yes, society will be better if all parents withhold anything that might help their children do better in school, work or life in general. Equity at its finest.
Churchill defined socialism as the equal sharing of misery.