See, that’s the difficulty with this situation. Its the government coming in and trying to improve restrictions and intervene with both private property and a family’s personal decisions about raising their kids. We can understand the government’s perspective. But they are massively overstepping over the fundamental rights that Theo, Todd, and Andi have.
Brown means well, but he and “The government” aren’t offering help, and they haven’t been asked for help: they are imposing it. They are imposing requirements, restrictions, and they’re taking over. Todd and Andi aren’t allowed to make choices and decisions about raising their children.
Agent Brown might be a good person. I like him. I respect him. I believe truly has the best interests of everyone at heart. But best interests, particularly when its a government making them and not the people involved themselves, very quickly becomes patronizing. The secrecy he needs to follow means that he cannot collaborate with the actual people involved. And that’s fundamentally a bad way to do this.
Yes, there are lasers. Yes, there is secrecy. But what is happening here is still: Todd needs to ASK the government for permission to “use my own private property to allow my daughter to hone a skill that is something she naturally has. A skill, mind you, that is directly to role and participation in her native culture.”
The government is here saying “No, WE decide when and if she gets to have anything to do with her own culture, and what she’s allowed to do as a part of that culture.”
And That. Is. Bad. When that happens and is allowed to continue, we start skidding down the slippery slope from into “forced assimilation into the ‘white American’ culture”. “Safety” is becoming an excuse for the government to overstep onto people’s rights.
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way.”
*sigh* “Let’s go with the easy way, at least for now.”
Theo may find all this a tad annoying, but at the end of the day, it’ll result in his grandchildren being safer.
Eeeeh
See, that’s the difficulty with this situation. Its the government coming in and trying to improve restrictions and intervene with both private property and a family’s personal decisions about raising their kids. We can understand the government’s perspective. But they are massively overstepping over the fundamental rights that Theo, Todd, and Andi have.
Brown means well, but he and “The government” aren’t offering help, and they haven’t been asked for help: they are imposing it. They are imposing requirements, restrictions, and they’re taking over. Todd and Andi aren’t allowed to make choices and decisions about raising their children.
Agent Brown might be a good person. I like him. I respect him. I believe truly has the best interests of everyone at heart. But best interests, particularly when its a government making them and not the people involved themselves, very quickly becomes patronizing. The secrecy he needs to follow means that he cannot collaborate with the actual people involved. And that’s fundamentally a bad way to do this.
Yes, there are lasers. Yes, there is secrecy. But what is happening here is still: Todd needs to ASK the government for permission to “use my own private property to allow my daughter to hone a skill that is something she naturally has. A skill, mind you, that is directly to role and participation in her native culture.”
The government is here saying “No, WE decide when and if she gets to have anything to do with her own culture, and what she’s allowed to do as a part of that culture.”
And That. Is. Bad. When that happens and is allowed to continue, we start skidding down the slippery slope from into “forced assimilation into the ‘white American’ culture”. “Safety” is becoming an excuse for the government to overstep onto people’s rights.
i agree with you, but replace paternalism with government abuse. paternalism as an argument on its own is stupid
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
― Ronald Reagan
Just wait until he starts getting asked how easy it’d be to upgrade the utilities.
Just what every farm needs: A ring of robot sentry towers armed with auto-canons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGR-A1
With it being a farm, I think what they really need is laser cows. https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=602