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Originally Posted by futurebeast
It is not really about whether it should or shouldn't be available. It is. Even if it is not sold in the store to a child, they can still get it. Many do everyday. They can also get porn, knives and guns. Where I grew many had all of those things. And there were many laws and steroid pumping cops to go along with them. We need cops that give us directions and solve homicides. The parents role will never be changed. They must educate their children.
The only way to solve the problem using the methods you seem to support would be a world like the matrix. Where you could control every aspect of life. It is just not possible. Prison is just not a solution for anything.
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In one sentence you talk about the parent's responsibilities, and the next how you know kids who had knives, guns and porn. Which is it?
Many parents either can't or don't take responsibility, so society should not step up?
Are you saying laws should only be reactive and not proactive? Cops should solve murders, but not prevent murders?
The parent's role has completely changed, but you don't seem to want to acknowledge that. On one hand you have an idealized view of parenthood in 2009, but again, talk about the poor parenting you saw first-hand.