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Starry Gordon's avatar

Societies have to do that in order to remain coherent and organized. If you have ever been responsible for small children you know you have to teach them all kinds of things which make no sense to them but which are necessary for survival in whatever kind of social order they are going to live in. The punishments for noncompliance are often very rough.

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Carolyn L Zaremba's avatar

We are not children.

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