Are Children Human or Potentially Human?

—“Interesting. So this would make all children non human by this logic.”—@thanos_pope

Demarcation between animal and human is agency, not consciousness. Consciousness provides the possibility of agency, but not its achievement. So either one raises one’s children from animal, to domesticated animal, to human, or one fails. One can fail genetically or parentally.

Parent’s want to avoid responsibility for their genetic and parental decisions, and to export their losses on the rest of society. What if we made parents really responsible again?