Comments on: Relativism and Children Buried Alive http://anadder.com/relativism-and-children-buried-alive Tue, 22 May 2012 02:41:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Living on Borrowed Time -- a Nadder! http://anadder.com/relativism-and-children-buried-alive/comment-page-1#comment-28115 Living on Borrowed Time -- a Nadder! Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:36:53 +0000 http://anadder.com/relativism-and-children-buried-alive#comment-28115 [...] Exposure Hill very quickly. Given that infanticide was pretty common for much of human history (and sometimes still is), other settings would have been no [...] [...] Exposure Hill very quickly. Given that infanticide was pretty common for much of human history (and sometimes still is), other settings would have been no [...]

]]> By: Four Kinds of Progress -- a Nadder! http://anadder.com/relativism-and-children-buried-alive/comment-page-1#comment-5823 Four Kinds of Progress -- a Nadder! Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:21:04 +0000 http://anadder.com/relativism-and-children-buried-alive#comment-5823 [...] dirty word. To speak of it was chauvinistic, imperialistic, paternalistic. I’ve spoken of the evils of relativism before. Yes, stage 2 (naive progress) was not the correct view. It led millions to violently impose [...] [...] dirty word. To speak of it was chauvinistic, imperialistic, paternalistic. I’ve spoken of the evils of relativism before. Yes, stage 2 (naive progress) was not the correct view. It led millions to violently impose [...]

]]> By: michael http://anadder.com/relativism-and-children-buried-alive/comment-page-1#comment-1548 michael Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:57:58 +0000 http://anadder.com/relativism-and-children-buried-alive#comment-1548 The solution can never be killing or imprisoning the entire tribe, at worst it would just mean imprisoning those who participated in the act. It's kinda funny that people often react in a "just kill them all" way (ie. killing those that were merely present but didn't protest, or did not protest enough) -- when by that standard they themselves would probably have to be killed. I could suggest a few solutions but I haven't really thought about it -- I think the bottom line is that infanticide can and has been minimised in most parts of the world compared to the Amazon situation. The most direct way would simply be to conduct an educational campaign explaining the Brazilian declaration of human rights and that anyone who kills a child will be prosecuted, and then follow up on it. It might take a bit of resources to police this but I think it's not out of the question to have one person watching over a village. Of course the other part would be education that goes to the root causes of the infanticide. Often the tribe simply doesn't want to look after sickly kids -- if the state took them and brought them back a few years later everyone would see how well they turned out. Obviously it's not as simple as that but superstition can be overcome -- it happens all the time. The solution can never be killing or imprisoning the entire tribe, at worst it would just mean imprisoning those who participated in the act. It’s kinda funny that people often react in a “just kill them all” way (ie. killing those that were merely present but didn’t protest, or did not protest enough) — when by that standard they themselves would probably have to be killed.

I could suggest a few solutions but I haven’t really thought about it — I think the bottom line is that infanticide can and has been minimised in most parts of the world compared to the Amazon situation. The most direct way would simply be to conduct an educational campaign explaining the Brazilian declaration of human rights and that anyone who kills a child will be prosecuted, and then follow up on it. It might take a bit of resources to police this but I think it’s not out of the question to have one person watching over a village.

Of course the other part would be education that goes to the root causes of the infanticide. Often the tribe simply doesn’t want to look after sickly kids — if the state took them and brought them back a few years later everyone would see how well they turned out.

Obviously it’s not as simple as that but superstition can be overcome — it happens all the time.

]]> By: Simon http://anadder.com/relativism-and-children-buried-alive/comment-page-1#comment-1544 Simon Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:13:35 +0000 http://anadder.com/relativism-and-children-buried-alive#comment-1544 "It means providing social services, education etc. to provide momentum for an already-existing anti-burial movement within the tribes." So if there was no already-existing anti-burial movement within the tribes, what would your suggested solution be? At what point do you advocate enforcement from the outside? And what if all avenues are attempted and the only solution left is "killing/imprisoning the entire tribe"? “It means providing social services, education etc. to provide momentum for an already-existing anti-burial movement within the tribes.”

So if there was no already-existing anti-burial movement within the tribes, what would your suggested solution be? At what point do you advocate enforcement from the outside? And what if all avenues are attempted and the only solution left is “killing/imprisoning the entire tribe”?

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