> you’re saying we went wrong with the kids and now we should not do the same for adults Well, I'm not defending that position so much as I am parroting that

> you’re saying we went wrong with the kids and now we should not do the same for adults Well, I'm not defending that position so much as I am parroting that crowd's idea that unsupervised childhoods were better. I think in both cases there's an element of prescribing the loss of options in favor of some notion of greater good. Whether it is a warranted trade-off or not, I don't know, but the Benjamin Franklin quote comes to mind: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety"