While I totally agree that people should be able to live their own healthy and happy lives, the only danger is the really UNhealthy and abusive people, and I don't know what the solution to that is. Hear me out.
We don't have "community" that would mitigate such abuses - it's far too easy for people to "mind their own business" and let abuse of kids go unchecked. On the other hand, the state for sure abuses and overreaches and comes down on people who weren't hurting anybody while actually abused kids languish. It's a nice thought to say that we can look out for each other, but you can't look out for everybody and not all kids have someone looking out for them. For every healthier-than-societal-norms, bucking-the-system-and-teaching-freedom-and-independence family, there is some cultish quiverfull KKK family who is teaching their kids that sexual abuse is okay because Yhwh, however their twisted logic works. You know? The question is, how do we keep those kids safe without the big hand of the government harming perfectly safe kids.
We can re-train ourselves to not "mind our business" and to get to know our neighbors, not in a pushy judgemental way, but in a helpful way, but I don't think that will be enough, the way the world is set up now, and I don't know what the answer is.
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I'm not sure what to do about those individuals either. This is the same situation as every situation really. lol What I mean by that is we fill prisons with people constantly but not everyone is a murderer, rapist or pedophile. We fight wars for money not self defense and the innocent people who don't want war die from this. We have CPS taking children from good families although not all the parents are crack smoking or heroine addicts with unfit living conditions. The world is a mess so somehow we must change it one step at a time.