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While I can empathize with your point of view, I have to disagree. Children don't have the perspective to make an informed decision about whether they should ac
by palish 17y ago
While I can empathize with your point of view, I have to disagree. Children don't have the perspective to make an informed decision about whether they should accept certain working conditions. (I'm speaking as a former child who would have accepted any kind of working conditions to have a "real" job.)
For a child, there is a very real chance his entire life could become dominated by insane work policies. He really shouldn't be deciding whether or not to accept those policies until he reaches a certain level of maturity.
Also, you say that we should accept child labor in the name of progress. However, if we do not discourage this practice now, then it will always be accepted later, after China or whoever is a "modern" country.
- kiba 17y agoWhile I can empathize with your point of view, I have to disagree. Children don't have the perspective to make an informed decision about whether they should accept certain working conditions. (I'm speaking as a former child who would have accepted any kind of working conditions to have a "real" job.) How do you know if you have the informed perspective? What is a informed perspective anyway? How do you determine maturity, for that matter? Only parents have that kind of knowledge, and we don't know if they are particularly good parents. Will his life really be dominated by insane work policies? What do you consider insane? All of this is because some people don't have knowledge. Therefore, we're going to make laws outlawing certain type of labors, damn the unforeseen consequences, and damn the teenage stakeholders!
- palish 17y agoI'm going to cut this line of questioning short so that you're not subjected to further downvote abuse from dumbasses. It's really a shame we can't have a nice, intelligent conversation on HN without one side of the debate being demonized in the process.