[Jibaholic]

Subscribing to cable television is a wholly voluntary activity. Nobody is exposed to the pollution against their will.

So you are taking the position that society has zero impact whatsoever on children - that 100% of the variance in how children turn out is explainable through the parents?

The people who live downriver from the factory did not buy the widgets but they still have the polluted water in their back yard.

[Modernman]

So you are taking the position that society has zero impact whatsoever on children - that 100% of the variance in how children turn out is explainable through the parents?

No, I'm not.

The people who live downriver from the factory did not buy the widgets but they still have the polluted water in their back yard.

Following your analogy, the people downriver specifically bought their houses because they wanted to drink from the polluted river, for whatever reason. Nobody forced them to move into the neighborhood and they knew exactly what they were buying into.