Children are truly mankind's greatest resource. They are both the artillery hurled at our enemies and the shield we use to protect ourselves from attack. The force that propels dictators to surround themselves with children as a means of deflecting bullets is the same one that propels people to use children's wide eyes and button noses to elect the next one. That force is human sentimentality.
If we ever experience a limitation to the right of free speech, it will come in the guise of protecting children. If we ever experience a limitation to our right to remain innocent until proven guilty, or a full reversal of such under vigilante rule, it will come in the guise of protecting children. Indeed, if we experience tyranny in the future, it will be in part helped along to fruition by the obsessive sentimentality mankind ascribes to the young ones. Preserving the made up substance of innocence in a child robs society of its own. The more worshiped children become, the less stable a society will be.
One might be tempted to think of this as a contradiction. Why, if society is said to be worshiping children, could one believe children are being used as weapons? The answer is more obvious than it may seem. When we idolize something, we cease appreciating it. In the same function that causes mankind to destroy each other over an omnibenevolent God, humanity destroys itself over their "innocent" children.
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