> I think most people are a lot more sensitive to shame compared to you and me.
Yeah, I thought of this at first too - "the real problem is that all these people that want to shame other parents have the CPS at their beck and call, and can enforce their shaming with violence."
But then I thought about it, and I think social pressure is mor…
> I think most people are a lot more sensitive to shame compared to you and me.
Yeah, I thought of this at first too - "the real problem is that all these people that want to shame other parents have the CPS at their beck and call, and can enforce their shaming with violence."
But then I thought about it, and I think social pressure is more than enough even without the capacity for violence / legal action behind it.
You would move birth rates trivially if CPS could no longer take kids away so easily, because only a small portion of the iconoclasts who don't care about social opinion but DO care about legal threats of kidnapping would have more kids, so it's certainly no solution.
> I think most people are a lot more sensitive to shame compared to you and me.
Yeah, I thought of this at first too - "the real problem is that all these people that want to shame other parents have the CPS at their beck and call, and can enforce their shaming with violence."
But then I thought about it, and I think social pressure is more than enough even without the capacity for violence / legal action behind it.
You would move birth rates trivially if CPS could no longer take kids away so easily, because only a small portion of the iconoclasts who don't care about social opinion but DO care about legal threats of kidnapping would have more kids, so it's certainly no solution.