Detached.
Defending a child's right to belong.
"When we create children without mothers or fathers, we don’t free them—we abandon them. This isn’t family-building. It’s commodification. Some haunting thoughts from my colleague, Josh Wood:
"Once we create children without biological attachment, and with no human involved in the process of gestation, there will be no one left to fight for them.""
In The Republic, Plato envisions a society where the family is abolished. The state, rather than parents, oversees reproduction, deciding who should mate to produce the best offspring. Children are not raised by their biological parents but are placed in state nurseries, ensuring that no child “belongs” to anyone. To maintain order, rulers engage in a “…
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