From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 03:12:50 MDT
Somebody wrote (sorry lost track):
[snip]
> Children dislike a great deal of things that may be in their best
> interests.
>
> ...are you sure?
>
> [snip]
> I don't think it makes a lot of sense to compare a child given an hour
> or less of chores to a slave working from dawn to dusk minimum day in
> an day out. I feel and have felt responsibility to "superiors",
> "equals" and "inferiors" if I bother to think of people in such a
> fashion. How something is seen by one of the parties involved is not
> necessarily equivalent to how it more realistically is, especially
> when one of the parties does not yet possess a particularly mature
> viewpoint. Do some parents oppress their children with too many tasks
> and duties often even delivered as punishment? Yes, of course. Does
> this mean that all chores assigned to children are wrong unless the
> child spontaneously volunteered? No. I don't think so.
>
> - samantha
>
> ...When an hour or so of doing boring things you don't want to do
> comes after an entire day of doing boring things you didn't want to do
> at school, your whole life can get a bit slave-complexed...
But really...do we go through these philisophical machinations every
time we want to ask a fellow adult to help us with chores? The same
system works. 'would someone give me a hand to push the car / do the
dishes / put out the garbage..?.' I mean, anybody intelligent of any
age responds to this. If they don't they're not your friends and you're
not communicating.
>
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