help me understand, why is this downvoted to -6?
Do you or would you secretly invade your child's privacy for their own protection?
TL;DR because this turned into a lot of looking back on my relationship with my parents: I'd make sure they knew I had the capability, and then, if I saw a need to use it, I would. I wouldn't give an expectation of privacy and then violate it.
First, let me state that I'm in my late 20s, and have no children.
Secretly? No. Or rather, I would never hide that I have the capability, though I wouldn't necessarily tell them when I was using it. If I had reason to suspect them hiding things from me, I might even hide the mechanism, but I'd let them know that I cou...
I don't have children. But my answer is that, potentially, I would, but it would depend on the situation.
Firstly, I think the level of privacy that a child can reasonably expect to have from his parents is age and context-dependent. A thirty-year-old who has left the home has a far greater legitimate expectation of privacy than a fifteen-year-old living at home, who in turn can legitimately expect far more than a 5-year-old. I don't think most people have any problem with, say, using a baby-monitor on a young child, even though this could be viewed as a gr...
whereas it reacts with actual disgust and lack of philosophical charity to feminism, social justice, Tumblr, etc
http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/20/social-justice-for-the-highly-demanding-of-rigor/
What does it mean to optimize the world, assuming the Many Worlds theory is true?
Robbing people of effective means to die doesn't make suicidal people stop being suicidal. It just forces them to endure whatever unbearable and possibly untreatable pain they are in.
have you noticed people adopting the lesswrong terminology and inaccurately priding themselves on being "sane"?
Makes sense, although the parent comment seems to be cheering NRx and booing feminism, is at only -2 in comparison.