That look of confused rage my son has as I bail him out of jail for sneaking into sea world and jerking off a dolphin
I mean if you're comparing it to, say, raising your kid to be part of your religion then yes, this would be significantly worse. For starters if you raise your kid as part of your religion then presumably you believe it too, as do loads of others. In this clearly made up bait post, the parents don't beleive they're warlocks or witches or whatever or that magic exists.
Just the mocking alone is gonna fuck up the kid. At least with religion, a bunch of other people believe it, too
It's probably better because they aren't doing the "You are fundamentally bad and evil, all your natural impulses are wrong and must be controlled, your entire life must be dedicated to God, everyone outside of the church is 'of the world' and sinful, your thoughts can damn you to eternal torture" - thing. And at least when they tell her the truth, everyone she knows won't still believe it and cut her off for thinking differently. And at least there won't be millions of people who think she's wrong for walking away, making her question and have nightmares for years as to whether she is really the misled one and needs to go back.
not all religions/denominations follow that puritanism ideology tho. Religion isn't inherently incompatible with "modernity" or whatever but conservatism in religion and culture is.
Libs out here really challenging the idea that prisons should be abolished.
Is this what meritocracy ghouls do to their kids? "You have to study really hard to get into this place that's had a spot for you since the day you were born!"
Everyone I know whose been raised with this kind of bullshit has really struggled. Either they fail at something, realise the world hasn't ended like their parents said it would and spent the next few decades coasting or they finally reached the end limits of structured education and training and in the absense of anything else to do, coasted.
Im probably lucky that my parents efforts to push me to succeed were kinda lazy and sporadic.
I mean... The last line is a pretty huge giveaway that they're doing a bit.
That's the thing though. I can just as easily imagine this being totally real. Maybe that's just a result of hellworld and my extremely cynical brain.
I'm thinking fake. It's too well developed and if it were real I would expect far more self deluding justifications for this obviously terrible idea.
Why can't they just read another book?! I can think of a dozen better YA fantasy novels off the top of my head.
I was about to say that maybe in an alternate dimension all the libs are into Terry Pratchett, but then we'd all be yelling at them about how Sam Vimes is a bastard or something
