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All this talk about power imbalance only to then make sure children can't rely on any adult other than their parents.


Yes indeed, I have the feeling the kid-adult power imbalance might be completely arbitrary. Yes an adult is physically stronger than a kid, but what sane adult would ever ...

Without the internet do you think any girl or woman would even want to have sex?

Well, of course yes, intimacy IS a human need, and for many people this includes sexuality. If this weren’t the case humanity would be done for. And needs don’t just “come up” at a given age. They’re natural, hard ...

For those of us in the dark, could you explain who Finkelhor is and what he's done?


He is, perhaps more than anyone else, responsible for the notion that AMSC is always inherently harmful. He took what was essentially a dying Christian problematization of AMSC and turned it into a modern ...

I'd say he and 'therapists' like him should all be mass executed if possible, but that's just going to either be illegal or impractical, so sending them off to CECOT in El Salvador does it for me as well. (That is the kind who forces kids through iatrogenic harm when their parents send them to those ...

O yes, I am a full youth rights liberationist. To the greatest extent reasonably possible should kids have the majority of the rights adults have, starting with all essential freedoms that should be granted to all human beings on planet Earth, which of course includes kids.



The first and most ...

Ok, I actually did find a set of evidence documents just browsing the web about democratic education, and one person in particular who has many great research articles about the subject is Peter Gray. Website www.petergray.org

Sure, but he's just one person. His articles don't "completely ...

If you're going to state that something has been "completely disproven", as opposed to merely criticized by alternative theories, you need to provide evidence.

Ok, I actually did find a set of evidence documents just browsing the web about democratic education, and one person in particular who ...

I pretty much absolutely agree with the principle but think that the practice doesn’t go far enough. Education should not be based on academic success or used as glorified “daycare”. Instead, it should focus on the interests of the learner themselves, who should ideally be able to set their own ...

Well, any sexual interaction between willing people can easily lead to a positive experience if they are not shunned or victimised for having had the experience. This is just for the physical pleasures and the positive impact the interaction may have to the relationship between these people ...

I pretty much absolutely agree with the principle but think that the practice doesn’t go far enough. Education should not be based on academic success or used as glorified “daycare”. Instead, it should focus on the interests of the learner themselves, who should ideally be able to set their own ...