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> it's partially your fault because you didn't do that

I never implied that. If something, I said that too much pressure by society is making parents work harder, and that's not necessarily a good thing.




I'm wondering why you are downvoted for this comment?


It's placing blame for a general problem on the decisions and values of certain people and societies.

In terms of logical structure, taking an anecdote and universalizing it without a falsifiable explanatory mechanism is indistinguishable from blaming faraway natural disasters on other people sinning against the gods.

In both cases, people and society are held to be at least partially culpable for something bad that happened to them without presenting any evidence other than that they don't do all the same things that you do, and you're doing fine.




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