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> I won't question your parenting methods...

Ok, cool!

> But what you've described sounds like a meager existence. I hope your children can escape their taskmaster... More likely, they'll grow up shaped into whatever form you decided suits them... Therapists can't always reverse the damage.

Uhhhm...



It's not necessarily wrong to do any of that.

It had a profoundly bad outcome for me, but maybe that's a one-off. It's arguable whether it had a bad outcome for my physicist friend. After all, she is a successful physicist.

This was intended to highlight some things that may not be immediately obvious. Life is counterintuitive.

It is very easy to do terrible things by accident. Morals are subjective. Is it morally wrong to declaw a cat? Some are horrified and compare it to clipping off a finger. Others think it's good for the cat and perfectly normal.

If I sat here and said "What you're doing is wrong; stop this," what good would it do? Absolutely nothing.

Sharing data is a little different. No one has perfect information. They have to choose to do something, and I respect that. Highlighting unintended consequences of a decision isn't quite the same as judging it.




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