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Originally Posted by analog
It might seem that way if you read it with a defensive stance, perhaps.
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ha, oh yeah, yeah...
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I'll have to get out my potato sack, because I just found the biggest and most slippery slope to date. I do enjoy a good slide.
This thread isn't about smoking, or drinking, or sex, or drugs, or rock and roll, or any of the other items in your lengthy systemic hyperbole. It's about underage children posting self-taken pornographic pictures online. My commentary and assertions to that end of course only apply and extend to the topic of discussion at hand, and not to anything you choose tack on later.
I didn't say "don't let your daughter have a computer in her room and she'll never smoke, drink, get laid, party, freebase cocaine naked and catch on fire..." I, and everything else in this thread, are talking about the topic of this thread, not every teen issue in existence.
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Did I say that the thread was about those things? Did I say anything about computers leading to drug use? The comparison was obvious. I deny that parents are always responsible for the things their children do. As well as for the things that they
do not do. Parents aren't even always responsible for the
good things their children do. Ever hear about good kids coming out of bad homes?
I do believe...yes, you're using some hyperbole right there to argue my point.
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...denying "private internet access"?... for a teenager? You say that like a computer in the bedroom for private internet access is a basic human right. Yes, teens deserve a level of privacy to live their lives, but that doesn't mean all forms of privacy are paramount to parenting. There's a point at which privacy is sacrificed for parenting. You may as well say a 14 year old should be free to spread for whomever she likes, since she deserves "privacy". "Privacy" does not apply to everything, everywhere- it has a reasonable limitation to responsible parents when safety (such as making sure your child isn't being preyed upon and giving away inappropriate personal information) or other forms of parenting are needed.
If a young teen girl was found to have been sexually assaulted by a pedophile, because their parents let her do whatever she wanted on the computer in the name of privacy, there would be a swift and rightful outcry against said parents for not taking any steps to safeguard their child.
I can't believe I'm the one to have to say this, but... think of the children, everyone.
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I didn't say any of those things. My point is that you shouldn't give children the impression that they are to be denied things because
you think (as a parent) they will do something wrong with them. Believe me, my kids had every reason in the world to flip out and do all kinds of crazy shit, but they have not. And I don't attribute all of it to me. Some of my nieces and nephews who haven't had it anywhere near as rough have turned out to be very promiscuous and drug addicts. I don't think you can chalk human behavior up to just parenting. Sometimes, yes, but not always.