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**Chris** · 01-03-2015, 15:42

Idi ... You describe normal family relationships, as they have existed for millennia and continue to exist today, in the UK and throughout the world, and then you characterise those relationships as "manipulation" and "dangerous". Clearly you can't see that while ostensibly arguing from a libertarian viewpoint, to demonise a family in such a way is to invite sanction and intervention - which would be authoritarian in the extreme. We are simply going to have to agree to disagree on this. I can at least take comfort from the fact that nobody in a position of power in this country (or anywhere in the developed world for that matter) has yet attempted to demonise families in the way you do, and, for the foreseeable future, parents will continue to enjoy their self-evident freedom to instruct their children as they see fit.

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,147	Re: Richard Dawkins says children need to be ‘protected’ from religion. Idi ... You describe normal family relationships, as they have existed for millennia and continue to exist today, in the UK and throughout the world, and then you characterise those relationships as "manipulation" and "dangerous". Clearly you can't see that while ostensibly arguing from a libertarian viewpoint, to demonise a family in such a way is to invite sanction and intervention - which would be authoritarian in the extreme. We are simply going to have to agree to disagree on this. I can at least take comfort from the fact that nobody in a position of power in this country (or anywhere in the developed world for that matter) has yet attempted to demonise families in the way you do, and, for the foreseeable future, parents will continue to enjoy their self-evident freedom to instruct their children as they see fit.