"It's just terrible what they're doing," Biden says in the video. "It's not like, you know, a kid wakes up one morning and says, you know, I decided I wanted to become a man, or I want to become a woman. I mean, what are they thinking about?"
This argument makes no sense. By this logic, because schizophrenics don't wake up one morning and decide to be schizophrenic, we should enable their illness and insist their delusions are real.
I think he is simply wrong: children often do come up with ideas on a whim, stick to them for times ranging from minutes to years, and abandon them before turning 18. Thus they shouldn't be allowed to make permanent and generally harmful decisions for themselves.
So not "It's terrible" as Biden says. Protecting children is a good thing. Protecting children from their batshit crazy parents is a good thing.
Everyone who has ever had a child knows that somedays they wake up and you cannot convince them they aren't a cat or dinosaur without an extreme shakeup.
I'd say it shows what kind of parent Biden was, but everything about Hunter confirmed that already.
Not that it is his take really. But you have the right of it. I woke up one day wanting to be spiderman, did I jump off the roof into my death? No, no one enabled me to follow a fantasy that can never be real.
This argument makes no sense. By this logic, because schizophrenics don't wake up one morning and decide to be schizophrenic, we should enable their illness and insist their delusions are real.
I think he is simply wrong: children often do come up with ideas on a whim, stick to them for times ranging from minutes to years, and abandon them before turning 18. Thus they shouldn't be allowed to make permanent and generally harmful decisions for themselves.
So not "It's terrible" as Biden says. Protecting children is a good thing. Protecting children from their batshit crazy parents is a good thing.
Everyone who has ever had a child knows that somedays they wake up and you cannot convince them they aren't a cat or dinosaur without an extreme shakeup.
I'd say it shows what kind of parent Biden was, but everything about Hunter confirmed that already.
Not that it is his take really. But you have the right of it. I woke up one day wanting to be spiderman, did I jump off the roof into my death? No, no one enabled me to follow a fantasy that can never be real.