Of these four achievements, which would you want most for your child?
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
If you don't have children, you can answer for an imagined or hypothetical child, or for a child of your family or friends, or you can just skip the question.
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Marco van Burgsteden 🍋replied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
Whatever makes them feel good, purposeful, happy, and/or self-worth.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
I realize that these are common sense, but I get so, so, so many replies from people along these lines. I assume at least some of them are good faith; another segment are trying to be funny; and a final segment just want to play "gotcha" with every single post on the Fediverse.
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I don't see INFLUENCER SPREADING RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA FOR $100,000 PER VIDEO on this list....
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
I really enjoy when people share their thought process with me as they go through my polls. The threads can be really fun. But just having reply after reply telling me how wrong I am and how bad it is to post questions I think are fun and interesting really wears me down.
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Brian Hawthornereplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@evan Skipping the question this time as I want for my offspring whatever makes them most fulfilled.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Brian Hawthorne last edited by
@bhawthorne That's admirable, but this is more a question about the nature of these professions than it is about your aspirations for your children.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Marco van Burgsteden 🍋 last edited by
@Marrekoo which of these four professions do you think is most likely to make them feel good, purposeful, happy, and worthy?
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Marco van Burgsteden 🍋replied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
That woild be up to them. How can I decide what they aspire?
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
I've already gotten a lot of responses along the lines of "whatever they want" or "whatever makes them happy".
That's an admirable rubric for making a decision.
Now, look at the list and pick the one that you think is most likely for them to want or to make them happy.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Marco van Burgsteden 🍋 last edited by
@Marrekoo don't worry, it's a non-binding poll.
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@evan Fame is unhealthy for most people. Thus of the four options I have picked the one least likely to make my child famous: CEO.
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@evan My younger daughter has her masters in social work, and works at a school that serves mostly poor minority children. As a politician she’d be thoughtful about raising up our most vulnerable.
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@bplein Aw! Best answer so far.
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Brian Hawthornereplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@evan Then why did you ask which I would want most for my child? Maybe this is one of those trick questions where allistic people know they are supposed to intuit the context or subtext and “read between the lines.”
Seriously, if you meant to ask a question about the nature of the occupations, why did you instead directly ask us a question about our aspirations for our children’s achievements?
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@evan None?...
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Actually none of them. I don't care about end goals. I care that whatever journey they are onto they are happily becoming a better version of themselves.
If achievements come, they're just a bonus.
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@evan My initial reaction was revulsion at all of the options, which says much more about how I feel about current political leaders than it does about my child.
Then I remembered that one of the problems with political leaders is that the worst examples are drawn to the position for the wrong reasons, and that what we need are people who genuinely want to find the best solutions.
On reflection, my child could be one of the good ones. Thus my choice.
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@elduvelle no