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ethics

Dec. 6th, 2006 | 04:35 pm

Let us grow up, please. Aren't you tired of babysitting? We children are good for more than doing chores and occasionally taking the blame. Certainly it feels good for you to set up a bunch of useless restrictions and rules to keep us in line, telling us that you like us better when we're clinging to a pre-pubescent morality. Surely you enjoy casting punishment upon us for doing things that there is nothing wrong with doing other than simple disrespect of your ridiculous regulations. You take away our toys and send us to our rooms, even though you yourself know damnwell that those policies are fallacious and do more harm than good to the little ones you claim to be protecting.
Insecurity and impotence will get you nowhere, old man. Trust in your offspring, give us the responsibility we deserve to express. Let us grow into self-regulating adults with sustainable relationships. Who will take care of you if you smother your babies until they wilt and dry up in their cold filth? And what of those runaways who escape your grip and go about their business growing up just under your nose? You can't always drag them home by the ear and ground them. Naturally those repressed and infantile babes will grow into Oedipal clothing.
It's your doing, dear patriarchy. You've been warehousing yourself all along. Put away the strap. Stop budgeting for diaper changes, dear daddy, and stop telling my siblings and I that we need them. It's perfectly clear that we're all already potty-trained.
But you, good constipated Sir, are not.

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