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"Paternalistic attitudes infantilize society" It's not 'paternalistic' to require people to pass a driving exam, or gasp, do a safety test to buy a gun. This
by jasmer 3y ago
"Paternalistic attitudes infantilize society"
It's not 'paternalistic' to require people to pass a driving exam, or gasp, do a safety test to buy a gun.
This pseudo-liberatrian crap is the most toxic part of HN, and frankly what is 'infantile'.
I have a number of nephews and nieces now and completely emphasize with my brothers and sisters who don't want to allow you and others to infect their kids with your supposed 'ideals' willy nilly - it's a cesspool out there.
At minimum parents should have choice.
We can be smart about it and provide anonymous tokens to validate age, it's not even hard, we just have to think about it, it should have happened long ago.
- anigbrowl 3y agoI'm not saying that there should no regulations, or anything even remotely like that. I'm saying that I object to having to ask people for permission to do the most quotidian low-harm things that people have been doing for millennia before this country was even founded.
- formerly_proven 3y ago> At minimum parents should have choice. Parents absolutely have a choice and always had it. They can always enable the adult filter in their internet box or on the devices they give to their children. Expecting the whole internet to implement sound age verification because they can't be bothered to do such a simple thing and instead need the state to nanny the other 80% of the population - that's actually infantile.