I don’t disagree, and honestly I have not seen his lectures so I have no clue what his point was, it might be insane. I guess reflexively I tend to get combative towards people/parents who tend to justify the hierarchy even when the children are like practically adults. I also take issue with the basis that parents get to make all decisions for their children with no outward input. We have too many children dying from preventable diseases because parents decided “it’s my kid, my body” basically, and refuse vaccines or proper medical care for their children.

That’s just true though. Spitting out a child in general should not constitute getting to lord over said child. In American law they even describe it as just one example of a “slave, master” relationship. Another one being employment.

Being an American, its valid for noam critique our structure of parent child relationships, and it’s weird to draw parallels between that and pedophilia.