Taking away bad options from children is a necessity, provided the adults tasked with these decisions are even capable of such. This could be seen as a recursion ad infinitum, of course. What I do believe, though, is that taking away bad options from adults creates another vicious cycle, that of infantilization. Something the author mentioned, and rightly so. Most humans will have to attend the school of hard knocks to progress in life. Taking away this attendance will not make a better world. It will make an infinitely infantilized world.
Taking away bad options from children is a necessity, provided the adults tasked with these decisions are even capable of such. This could be seen as a recursion ad infinitum, of course. What I do believe, though, is that taking away bad options from adults creates another vicious cycle, that of infantilization. Something the author mentioned, and rightly so. Most humans will have to attend the school of hard knocks to progress in life. Taking away this attendance will not make a better world. It will make an infinitely infantilized world.