PHIL 1290 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Drinking Buddies, Unconditional Love, Psychometrics
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(1) regulating potentially harmful activities: we already restrict dangerous activities, we already test for competence, disappointment or inconvenience irrelevant, not all prospective parents possess minimal competence, thus, prospective parents should be licensed (2) theoretical objections. Unwarranted intrusion : yet we already sometimes engage in pre-emptive intervention. Reasons for saying no are important (if it"s exam question ) There"s an inherent inequality between parents and children. Doesn"t mean there"s a problem that they can"t become friends, only if that"s the number one idea. Age is usually a pretty important consideration. There might be some circumstances that interfere with the friendship: structural. Some challenges to friendship are contingent, some challenges are structural challenges build right into the relationship. Kupfer believes that there are goods that children and parents share; there are goods that can be achieved only in a parent-child relationship. Notes that times are changing; children have more rights and freedoms.
