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I'd mostly agree, but also note Rousseau

Posted by Baldur on Sunday, July 14 2019 at 01:17:25AM
In reply to I'd say England posted by sans on Saturday, July 13 2019 at 11:34:18PM

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was from Geneva (Switzerland), but was mostly active in France - so perhaps this wickedness owes its origins to one or both of those countries.

Most notably, Rousseau promoted the nonsense that children were naturally good; that is, not in the sense of "children are a blessing" but the obvious falsehood that "children are naturally moral creatures until society corrupts them".

Besides playing havoc with all sorts of things, Rousseau being among other things the favorite philosopher of the Jacobins in the French Revolution (which of course influenced subsequent revolutions around the world that killed millions of innocent people), this nonsense about children's "purity" led to the notion that children should be protected from sex. Rousseau himself may not have intended that result, but he set it in motion.

Which is to say, Rousseau established the ideas that later led to the raising of the age of consent and the persecution of children's sexuality in England.

As for how Rousseau treated children himself? He had five children, and directed his common law wife to leave them all at orphanages. These orphanages had very high child mortality rates, even for that time. In the 70% range.

This is the foundation that all the "child saving" movements are based on: a man who was unwilling to take care of his own children and was willing to leave them to die.




Baldur






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