This isn't about today's generation, it's general. Do you consider kids inferior to adults? Do you think kids have equal civil liberties? Feel free to answer the question more generally.
2006-09-24 05:59:34 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
I will express my feelings on this issue in the words of the great comedian/philosopher George Carlin: "Kids are like any other group of people; a few winners, a whole lotta losers."
2006-09-24 06:02:08 · answer #1 · answered by The Lobe 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe children are innately human, so they carry the characteristics they will have in adulthood (very general!). Now: kids are not inferior to anyone. I am really disgusted with a criminal justice system which allows pedophiles to get off with lighter sentences than bank robbers and a society that cries out about violating their civil rights by making them register as sex offenders! In the system in which I work, the saying is: I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote! I think that answers the question more adequately about the lack of civil liberties that our children have. I have more than 20 years in the juvenile justice system and rarely see children treated with the same rights and liberties that are afforded to adults. For example, our society believes that families should be kept together at all costs. That means, you remove the child as they have been beaten nearly to death, or raped at age 1 and they are returned to the same family! They are not inferior beings, they are children who we are teaching that it is ok to treat other children this way, or even your own children, because when you are an adult, you can do what you want to kids. Sorry for the rant, this topic is very close to home for all of us in the 'system'.
2006-09-24 06:08:58 · answer #2 · answered by swarr2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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I teach. Kids are amazing, and intelligent adults can learn much from them. They are inferior in size, certain aspects of physical, emotional, and spiritual development, usually. They are superior in those same areas in other ways. No, kids should not have equal liberties, but they should be treasured and protected.
2006-09-24 06:40:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do no longer care what faith somebody has; yet while they're a fundamentalist, meaning in reality that they placed just about no inventory in technological know-how, reason or data, i won't be able to help yet think of they are notably stupid. i've got examine some wonderful thinkers, some who believed, some who did no longer; yet i've got in no way examine an outstanding fundamentalist. They embarrass faith interior the comparable way pseudo-scientists embarrass the scientific community.
2016-10-17 21:33:17 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think kids are too smart for their own good today. when i was a kid going bk 10 yrs r more we knew much less but we were innocent and happy. dounds corney but true
2006-09-24 06:03:28 · answer #5 · answered by Belosnezhka (aka Gex) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋