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Quote by: Alive  Captain Cardio,
It is hard to debate when we have no common agreement on basic morality. If I say good=people being happy and living good lives, and my opponent says good=totalitarian power to the parents, what more can be said? All I can really say is my opponent has a really perverted moral system that allows any kind of abuse of person so long as that abuse is parent to child. But I can't really prove that his moral system is wrong; proving the correctness of a morality is impossible. |
The problem, though, is that you're creating a false dichotomy between "being happy and living good lives" and "totalitarian power to the parents" over their children. I think such a dichotomy is itself perverted. You wrongly assume that my position of wanting the government to butt out of our families' lives means supporting the "right" of parents to abuse their children (though you haven't defined "abuse").
It irritates me no end when people presume to argue against what they read INTO my posts instead of arguing against what I said. It is not your place to read into what I post and I will insist that if you're going to disagree with me that you damned well had better get it right! Disagree with what I post and not your interpretations of what I post.