Whether it’s economic, cultural, political, religious, ideological, whatever, what are some ideas that you believe in? I think friendly (very important!!) discussion of these could be good as to understand the views of others. Pluralism and the acceptance of many beliefs is generally a good thing.
As long as you don’t believe in implausible conspiracy theories or say anything that is listed on the rules of most Lemmy communities and instances (in which case, don’t say it), I think the opinions of others should be respected!
Please don’t devolve this into a hot political argument, holy war, or similar. It ends badly for world powers (all of them), and it will end badly here with no winning sides. Friendly debate is ok as long as you don’t go nuts, make sure you give good supporting arguments with evidence!
You know how dog people say there’s no bad dogs, only bad owners? Same thing with kids. It’s way more nuanced than that. It’s true up to a certain point. After having a giant boom of babies in my life recently, nothing has changed my thinking more than watching a blank slate of a human being be morphed into whatever the parents molded that child into. Sometimes it’s rough.
While I agree with you, I’d also encourage you to stay tuned to those children. It seems to me that certain traits come through on children regardless of parenting, as if the child was just wired for that certain personality quirk. Also, children sometimes become pretty self aware in their teens (certainly not always), and those teens tend to reverse the negative things their parents put on them. Just my experience so far.