Charles Murray

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Responsibility for the consequences of actions is not the price of freedom, but one of its rewards

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Regardless of whether people have free will, human flourishing requires that they live in an environment in which they are treated as if they did

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They don't know the distinction between taking care of a child and raising a child

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It used to be that parents didn't have to be home. If a neighbor so I child misbehaving, it was considered appropriate for the neighbor to intervene. The parents would be grateful when they found out, and they would take the word of the neighbor if the child protested his innocence.Unmarried and divorced parents tend not to behave that way. Instead, they tend to try to be the good guy to their children

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Data can bear on policy issues, but many of our opinions about policy are grounded in premises about the nature of human life and human society that are beyond the reach of data