From: Hal Finney (hal@finney.org)
Date: Sat Jul 05 2003 - 18:12:10 MDT
Eliezer writes:
> Children are people, and across the world they are being put through hell.
> So, of course, are many adults. But it is the children that no one
> sympathizes with, no one writes about, no one is ever able to take their
> viewpoint because the memories are too painful and the minds are too alien
> and they don't dare respect children for fear that others will stop
> respecting them. Everyone says they care, and perhaps they do, but no one
> ever takes the children's side.
David Deutsch (famous quantum physicist and many-worlder) has a good
pro-childrens-rights essay, The Final Prejudice, at
http://www.webleyweb.com/tle/le970401-10.html. He analyzes a Star
Trek episode in which Captain Picard is transformed into a shape which
causes no one to take him seriously.
Deutsch also links to an organization, Taking Children Seriously,
http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~tcs/, dedicated to the principle that "it is
possible and desirable to bring up children entirely without doing things
to them against their will, or making them do things against their will,
and that they are entitled to the same rights, respect and control over
their lives as adults."
Hal
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