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Are parents' incentives really that strong? We need all sorts of laws to prevent parents from exploiting or maltreating their children. It seems that parental

• lookdangerous 6y ago
  The negative extremes are, well, extreme. I am not a parent myself, yet, but I think you'd be surprised how great the incentive truly is. If we had a tidy causal analysis of what drives people the world over, I suspect parental instincts would make up a visible chunk of motivations.
  • blain_the_train 6y ago
    To protect there kids from short term problems they understand yes. But issue like climate change are both hard to understand and long term. Having kids doesn't make you wiser.
    • TeMPOraL 6y ago
      > Having kids doesn't make you wiser. But it makes you more receptive to arguments about anything that could endanger their safety and future. My wife has started to be much more environmentally conscious (vs. economically conscious) over the past year, and I think it all started due to one off-hand remark: I said that I hope our (then about-to-be-born) daughter will be able to experience snow. She brought up that particular phrase to me many times now; it seems it really stuck in her imagination.