Reply #98: You said

[Rabrrrrrr]

that I think taking kids away and ruining their lives is a good option.

Of course, I never think that ruining the life of a child is a good option. Even freeper children, even freeper children being raised to be freepers, don't deserve to have their lives ruined.

And I neither kidding nor not-kidding - if a parent isn't taking care of their children's health, that's abuse. Whether it's letting them eat all the shit they want; or giving them only shit to eat; or starving them; or verbally abusing them into anorexia or bulemia.

It's all abuse.

In a perfect world, abused kids would be removed from their parents and given to parents who will treat them properly and take care of them. I think that would be very 'nice', which was a shitty word for me to use since I hate it - let's say "fill me with joy" instead.

However, we don't live in a perfect world, and no parent is perfectly bad, nor any parent perfectly good, and thus and therefore, drawing those lines of disctinction are a pain in the ass. And, of course, finding sufficient surrogate parents.

So, it would fill me with joy if we could take the kids away, but I know that in most circumstances we cannot because it's difficult, it's an extreme option, and also because there often aren't any good places to take the children to anyway.