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by heresie-dabord
32 days ago
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It depends on the harm that you witness. Your question does imply your awareness that parents are not/may not be intellectually (or even morally) competent. In no Western society that I can name are parents omnipotent owners of their children. Parents may even lose custody of their children. If you know that parents are doing physical harm to children, you have a social obligation to try to do something for those children. Even though we may turn a blind eye, we do have a social obligation to all children. Human anthropological history reflects this. Although intellectual harm tends to be seen as sunken cost (and possibly "correctable"), social harm has intolerable consequences. |
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If you strip away conventions bound in law, governance the idea of community, and go to basics: if I see something going on that troubles me, I should take whatever action I think is appropriate. No 'community', no man made laws required.