MBlume comments on Our House, My Rules - Less Wrong

36 Post author: David_J_Balan 02 November 2009 12:44AM

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Comment author: smoofra 02 November 2009 03:31:16PM 9 points [-]

In my experience, children are cruel, immoral, egotistical, and utterly selfish. The last thing they need is to have their inflated sense of self worth and entitlement stroked by the sort of parenting you seem to be advocating. Children ought to have fundamentally lower status, not just because they're children per se, but because they're stupid and useless. They should indeed be grateful that anyone would take the trouble to feed and care for someone as stupid and useless as they, and repay the favor by becoming stronger.

Comment author: MBlume 03 November 2009 12:28:22AM *  2 points [-]

I don't know that I agree with you, but

  • I also don't know whether I disagree with you
  • No one else came close to this point
  • and you made it well

so upvoted.

Comment author: wedrifid 03 November 2009 03:58:59AM 2 points [-]

To convert the above to a bulleted list, add a space between each asterix and the sentence.

Comment author: Alicorn 03 November 2009 05:03:14PM *  3 points [-]

each asterix

This caused me to imagine a little ASCII character that resembled Asterix.

Comment author: MBlume 04 November 2009 03:31:14AM -1 points [-]

haha, I loved those books when I was a kid ^_^

Comment author: LucasSloan 05 November 2009 05:14:46AM 0 points [-]

I love them still as they are really useful for practicing my french. My teacher has a shelf full of them. I've already read them in English, and they contain a lot the the plot in the picture and they use very simple language. The best test of my abilities come when one of the characters with a lisp or foreign accent is talking and I have to puzzle out what french word they're using.