“Big brother” tells you a lot of things you can and can’t do to your kids. Because, and I know this will surprise a lot of people, a lot of parents make terrible decisions which impact their kids who have little-to-no say in the matter.
Kids don’t understand the long term impact of their actions, which is why “big brother” has to create laws to prevent them from doing anything and everything they want. Because, and I know most here seem to not care, but it’s to society’s benefit to not have a bunch of younger people with CTE and damaging effects of repeated concussions.
How many “don’t tell my kids what to do” parents would be ok if their kids started smoking cigarettes or using chewing tobacco at the age of 6? Probably not many. How many parents would be comfortable with their kids in a car without a car seat or seat belt? Some, but most accept that restraining the kid in the car is to everyone’s benefit. Tackle football, as much as we all love to watch it, is unhealthy for kids’ brains. It doesn’t surprise me, or bother me at all, that banning it before a certain age is becoming trendy idea.
We regulate minors’ behavior all the time and usually whenever a new idea comes along there’s a crowd of anti-science types who say stuff like “don’t tell me my kid can’t smoke two packs of cigarettes a day! There’s no proof that cigarettes are bad for kids! I smoked a hundred cigarettes a day when I was a kid and I’m just fine now!”
Then you have the crowd who just doesn’t care about long term societal impacts of stuff like this because they’re too ignorant to understand how other people’s kids’ actions affect their own lives.
