On 9/16/2015 10:54 PM, Muggles wrote:
On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:27:08 -0700, Don Y wrote:
Just because it's a deep subject doesn't mean all
the possible scenarios are good reason to do
nothing or say nothing. Don't you agree?

Sure! The problem becomes one of consistency: how do you rationalize THIS
but not THAT?

It's an argument any one of us could easily bring up. I could argue your
points just as easily as my own. As far as cigarette smoking goes, I think
it's been established that it causes disease, so that would be grounds for a
legitimate complaint against it's use. It doesn't fall into the same categories
that you've been arguing as far as I can tell.

Does the emotional/psychological environment that a child is raised in
affect his/her "mental health" down the road? Behavior patterns?

Do the "examples" that parents place in front of their kids through
their "formative years" effectively *teach* bad or destructive
behaviors/habits? Do parents with eating disorders effectively impose
those disorders on their kids? Effectively leading their kids to have
the same sorts of health problems later in life? Does promiscuous
behavior lead to kids adopting similar lifestyle risks?

[kids are an easy example because they represent a population that
typically are not independant actors -- they are effectively captive to
the influences of their parents while "growing up"]