It's a popular pastime, that. This is about the puppy-dog's tail being cut off an inch at a time.. so he doesn't 'notice'.
Every parent really wants: a Protective Bubble around *My Kid* and screw the fact of the environment, the kultur We Have Created / Condoned == The Same. IMhO. A nation of individual solipsists?
Why do *regular* users of drugs do so? (as opposed to the usual and encouraged; inculcated! habits of standard recreational Pleasure-seekers: the very backbone of the acquisitive, consumption-oriented society which we nurture.)
Usual psych extra-verbose explanations reduce to variants of ~"because they Can't Stand the milieu in which they happen to find themselves!" and will escape it At Any Cost\ufffd
(Corollary - most of these feel "helpless to extricate selves from whatever that milieu's local form takes - either for financial or psychological 'lack'" - is often the second common denominator deduced.)
But WTF - we Can bury that too; just another simplistic no-brainer War On ___.
THAT is Who 'We' Are. First the euphemism, then the non-solution. EZ fix. Like Service Pack 2 fixes Doze.
Thanks for your vote for continued homogenization of all inmates - it's sure a lot simpler than changing Root causes, I always say. Children have Rights ??? [Hah]
But I calls it sophistry, in search of ferreting out any remnants of the Constitution -as are still ~working- and a standard evasion of the hard work of bringing up an autonomous kid. No Matter in What 'Milieu' cha cha cha
(and.. you can't plead 'poverty' - right?)
Ashton
Bubbles.. blow AND suck.