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Nodrog · 15 Mar 2006, 14:13

Parents absolutely must have the sole right to decide what treatment their child receives. It sucks in this particular case since the father is a loony, but you have to consider how potentially horrifying the alternative could be. Imagine a society where a child could be legally required to undertake treatment for a 'mental illness' such as ADHD, OCD, or whatever other undesirable behaviors the state/psychiatric community wishes to eliminate.

I think this sort of thing will become increasingly important over the next 100 years as we start to understand more and more about how to control human behavior, and the best way to prevent the slide down the slipperly slope is to declare right from the start that medical treatment is the exclusive perogative of the parent, even if this means that some babies will suffer unnecessarily.

15 Mar 2006, 14:13	#2
Nodrog Registered User Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 8,476	Re: This thread is not about abortion Parents absolutely must have the sole right to decide what treatment their child receives. It sucks in this particular case since the father is a loony, but you have to consider how potentially horrifying the alternative could be. Imagine a society where a child could be legally required to undertake treatment for a 'mental illness' such as ADHD, OCD, or whatever other undesirable behaviors the state/psychiatric community wishes to eliminate. I think this sort of thing will become increasingly important over the next 100 years as we start to understand more and more about how to control human behavior, and the best way to prevent the slide down the slipperly slope is to declare right from the start that medical treatment is the exclusive perogative of the parent, even if this means that some babies will suffer unnecessarily.