Incapable of Self Thought, Buy a Robot

"Family Locator" cell phones. These handy little devices can be given to your children and with a click of the button you can monitor their every movement. Advocates say it's a more dangerous world out there and these handy devices will help keep kids safe; they may help keep kids off drugs because parents will know where their kids go. Is today's world actually more dangerous than before? I don't think so. There has always been rapists, serial killers, child molesters, kidnappers, hate crimes, and those who vie to destroy the world. As for drugs, they've always been part of the human experience. If it isn't meth, it's cocaine, heroine, or opium. There will always be something we, as people, shouldn't delve into. So, I ask, what are we teaching our children? We are teaching them that they are irresponsible, untrustworthy, and incapable of thinking for themselves - incapable of making decisions. When the time comes in the near future, when these children - raised through the eyes and will of Big Brother - enter the world of adults - unable to make decisions on their own - fail to question the removal of yet more Constitutional rights, refuse to stand up and tell their leaders that domestic eavesdropping is illegal, stand back and allow, yet another American to be held in jail without legal representation, and lack the ability to question the motives of foreign policy - don't be surprised. After all, this was how they were conditioned to respond - with complacency.

Children today, like children of yesterday, need to explore their surroundings and test their parameters. It is true, that yes, they like children of the past, may fall and get hurt. However, it is the occasional bump and bruise along the way that opens their eyes to the realities around them. If you want an unthinking child, perhaps you should invest in a robot.