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Originally Posted by 7
If the parents wouldn't take their children to a doctor because they thought doctors were actually evil bugmen from Venus, the state should kick the door open and take the children.
I think the same should be true for people who don't take their children to the doctor because they believe in a magical man who lives in the clouds.
The two play the same in my head.
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I assume that the US has compulsory education laws like most Western countries. If we accept that the state has the right to interfere in the education process in the child's interest, how can we deny its right to interfere on the child's behalf when the stakes are life-threatening? To do so is to endorse the notion of children as property, whose needs are to be met or not at the whim of their owner (I realise that to some extent that
is the legal reality in the US, but that's a discussion for another thread).