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False. This is unjustified double punishment for kids whose parents don't care. I notice you tried to justify immorality by splitting the response into "morall

• duncan_bayne 9y ago
  > I notice you tried to justify immorality Hmmm. Perhaps I wasn't clear. You are reading a _lot_ more into my post than I intended. I'm an Objectivist Libertarian who thinks that (a) what China is doing in this case is positively evil, and (b) that any level of resistance up and to including violent revolution on the part of the Chinese people would be entirely moral and justified. By explaining the pragmatic 'justification' for this abhorrent system, I was trying to make the point that the Chinese Government gives exactly no shits about the morality involved; they want to exercise power, and this is seen as a cost-effective means of doing so. The implied point I was _trying_ to make (and, clearly, failing) was that pragmatism in politics is the devil.
• Nomentatus 9y ago
  No idea where 2) comes from. He's just saying that the Chinese government is intent on making it's own job easier and certainly it is. If anything he's implying this is an instance of a "principle-agent problem". Managers very often do what's best for them, regardless of general consequences, 'cause they can.