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I don't think the problem is strategic concerns, I think the problem is connotations.
The connotations for child abuse are "call the cops and/or child protective services which will take the child away from the parents and place him/her into foster care" and "put the parents in jail and throw away the key". Child abuse is not merely bad parenting.
What do you mean? Finding your tribe / peer group isn't a matter of plopping the right search terms into Google. I think it mostly works through following the connections from things and people you find on the 'net. If you consistently look for "smarter" and follow the paths to "more smarter" X-), you'll end in the right area.
Well, of course. But imagine things before the internet :-/
Yeah, the Dark Ages before 1980s were a cruel place to live.
I tried this, and maybe I was doing it wrong or maybe just not persistently enough, but essentialy my findings were of two kinds:
1) Instead of "rational smart" I found "clever smart" people. The kin... (read more)