Boy Forced to Live in Forest with Father for 5 Years Found in Germany

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Kasz216 said:

You do realize that by trying to take this kid's child away you are in fact trying to force your culture on to him.  A culture he rejected by moving away from it. 

Would you say that if a man from Australia decides he likes aborigine culture better and leaves Sydney to live like the aborigines with his son he was abusing him?

He rejected modern culture and moved to the wilderness with his son to start a new culture, at an age where parents can legally make choices for their children.

Either you respect other cultures or you don't.  The minute you try and pick and choose you AREN'T picking to tolerate other cultures and instead only tolerating cultures that aren't too far off your own.

And I mean really, I can think of many places with much worse cultural choices then that based on survivalism, like the many cultures where women have zero power, or where racism and anti-semtism exist and outright executions of people who slightly fall out of the norm.

Sorry, the type of relativism you're talking about is simply unacceptable. We might as well throw out laws all together, and let people do whatever they want, after all, they someone can just say 'your laws are rooted in this culture, and I've decided to reject this culture, so you can't touch me'. The whole cultural relativism only applies to people who come from other cultures (e.g. aborigines). This man did not come from an aboriginal culture , nor did he attempt to start another culture. Culture is something collective, not individual. He did not live in a community, he lived isolated like a hermit.

It's also quite insulting for aboriginals to compare them to this guy. I don't think you know much about them, but I can assure you that they're don't live like wild animals. And parents do not have the legal right to take their children out of school, and they also have the legal obligation to offer them the necessities.