• JackGreenEarth
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    605 months ago

    I’m disappointed that most people seem to treat kids as subhuman, not needing the basic right privacy and freedom that they want for adults so much.

    • @Infernal_pizza@lemmy.world
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      285 months ago

      They don’t want the right to privacy and freedom for adults either though. Sure they might say they do if you ask them but as soon as they’re mildly inconvenienced by a protest or someone mentions children are in danger they’re all in favour of spying and censorship laws

    • jan teli
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      285 months ago

      “Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along - the same person that I am today. I never felt that I spoke childishly. I never felt that my emotions and desires were somehow less real than adult emotions and desires.”
      —Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

      • @wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        65 months ago

        It’s important to note that a big part of that book is repeated evidence that Ender is not a “normal” child. He is heavily implied to have murdered one of his bullies before he was ever pulled out of society and into training (where he explicitly kills another bully).

        • jan teli
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          5 months ago

          Nah that quote’s from the foreword, he’s talking about himself