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> I hold the opinion that the proper training and education of one's offspring should be a foremost life goal, and that delegating it to the state because "it's
by Wingman4l7 13y ago
> I hold the opinion that the proper training and education of one's offspring should be a foremost life goal, and that delegating it to the state because "it's easier", "I don't have the time", etc. is an abhorrent cop-out.
This is one of the main reasons why I do not (and very well may never) have children; I realized that the commitment to do it properly is just too great for me to make.
- rwallace 13y agoI sympathize but would urge you to reconsider. There are activities where "properly or not at all" is a good policy, but raising children isn't one of them; had such a policy been universally applied, nobody now living would be alive. Those who were never born are just as dead as those who were born and then died, and surely your children would be much better off dealing with the imperfections that are an inevitable part of life, than not being alive at all.
- joe5150 13y ago"Those who were never born" doesn't strike me as a concept with much logical positivist value.
- cac04 13y agoLogical positivism doesn't strike me as a concept with much logical positivist value.
- joe5150 13y agoYeah, sure, but that doesn't make "those who were never born" any more meaningful to argue about than, you know, the present bald King of France or whatever.
- cac04 13y agoI know, I was just being facetious. It amuses me that logical positivism fails its own verification principle.
- joe5150 13y ago"Logical Positivism" has been roundly debunked, but I think some of its principles, and those of the movements that came before and after it, are important and applicable. I call a lot of these "logical positivism" more by habit than by way of endorsing the philosophy as such.