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I've been thinking about this issue of Hopi "child abuse". Is it more abusive to subject children to a single coming-of-age ritual designed to teach them to th
by Vivtek 13y ago
I've been thinking about this issue of Hopi "child abuse".
Is it more abusive to subject children to a single coming-of-age ritual designed to teach them to think, or to allow children to transition to adulthood physically unharmed yet full of ideas designed to hold them back from full enjoyment of their faculties?
It seems that the Hopi would be entirely justified in saying that all other Americans are guilty of child abuse.
- einhverfr 13y ago> It seems that the Hopi would be entirely justified in saying that all other Americans are guilty of child abuse. Which brings me back to my point. Who gets to make the rules? Isn't the greatest justice served and the greatest abuses of power prevented by keeping these decisions as local as possible?