I think it is better to spend the care and concern for the children who fall victim to these people in ways like contacting the authorities, and working to pass laws that would ban behavior like this.
In Sweden, it's illegal to hit a child. End of story. No, you can't use a "light slap" as discipline. No, you can't spank a child's bottom. No, you can't pull their hair. And the thing is, even with that law, we don't have a country full of rude savages. What we do have are lots of grounds on which concerned daycare personal, friends, relatives and others can get the authorities involved in cases where they suspect children are being abused.
So rather than attacking Amazon, and setting a precedent for removing books on the grounds that a lot of people (that I agree with!) think it's terrible and immoral, I think we should work to make it illegal to follow the practices in the book in question. That way you can get rid of the book and get to the problems behind it.
Of course, the trouble is that this is all happening in the US, and while Amazon.com might care about international customers, US politicians most certainly don't. So. I guess writing Amazon is a way of doing something? And that I can understand.
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on 2012-01-15 05:42 pm (UTC)In Sweden, it's illegal to hit a child. End of story. No, you can't use a "light slap" as discipline. No, you can't spank a child's bottom. No, you can't pull their hair. And the thing is, even with that law, we don't have a country full of rude savages. What we do have are lots of grounds on which concerned daycare personal, friends, relatives and others can get the authorities involved in cases where they suspect children are being abused.
So rather than attacking Amazon, and setting a precedent for removing books on the grounds that a lot of people (that I agree with!) think it's terrible and immoral, I think we should work to make it illegal to follow the practices in the book in question. That way you can get rid of the book and get to the problems behind it.
Of course, the trouble is that this is all happening in the US, and while Amazon.com might care about international customers, US politicians most certainly don't. So. I guess writing Amazon is a way of doing something? And that I can understand.