Aren’t they cute?  Aren’t they sweet?  When a child does something nice to or for us, we admire the courtesy, sweet disposition and mannerly demeanor.  Everyone loves a young person with decorum and restraint.  We can respect a well-mannered child as a person, a success.

What we have more trouble with is understanding that there is no difference in substance between the well-mannered child and the brat.  The both have an inherent human dignity.  The difference, really, can be laid at the feet of the parents.  Likewise, there is no difference is essence between the parents and the children.  They are all human.  You see where this is going, right?

Human dignity doesn’t depend on training, or our feelings.  A human being is a person by reason of its nature.  Living being, human genetic code, we’re done.  Every living being that is human is owed the same respect given to every other human.  Part of that “owed to them by nature” is the right to training by responsible parents.  The more challenging intellectual problem is keeping in mind that they are living human beings from haploid gamete fusion to putrefaction.  Human persons have inherent rights:

• the right to life and to be born
• the right to a father and a mother
• the right to a stable home
• the right to food and clean water
• the right to medical care and shelter
• the right to liberty
• the right to a proper education
• And perhaps the right to self-defense or defense by another.

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