Should we ban families?

Short & Curly

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Philosophy

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Why do some kids get all the luck? It doesn't seem fair that some kids are born into families with lots of love and support, while other kids don't get any, or don't have a family at all. The philosopher Plato had a pretty wild idea for how to fix this unfairness — get rid of families! He said if we did that, people would care more about all children, not just their own. What do you think? Would the world be a better and fairer place if we brought up children in a different way?

Brains Trust: Eve, Olivia, Darby, Christian, Neve and Tessa from Leichardt Public School.

Actors: Isaac, Harriet, Cody and Isabelle.

And special thanks to Oren Thaler, for telling us about his time growing up in the Kibbutz.

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0:00.0	This is an ABC podcast.
0:08.0	Hey everyone, Matt Beard here.
0:11.0	Today on Short and Curley I've created an imaginary world. I'm going to drop
0:18.8	Molly and Carl in the middle of it and blow their little minds.
0:24.9	And here's the big twist.
0:27.5	In this world there is no such thing as a family. At least not the kind of family you might know.
0:35.0	Hello and today you're just
0:40.0	Short, you're listening to Short and Curly and Curly.
0:44.0	Yay!
0:45.0	Short and Curly!
0:48.0	Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly!
0:51.0	Short and Curly! Jordan Golly! Golly!
0:55.0	Oh, Matt, we're ready for our surprise trip.
0:59.0	Our passports are up to date.
1:00.0	All our bags are on the bus.
1:02.0	Uh, Carl, you wouldn't need bags for this trip because you're not going anywhere.
1:07.6	Ullie, I told you this was too good to be true.
1:11.3	You are right about the trip being too good to be true. You are right about the trip being too good to be true. Later in the
1:16.2	show I'm going to be sending you both to a world that doesn't exist.
1:21.6	Great another El Chippo imaginary trip. I bet the destination isn't even that cool. Just another way to get me questioning everything I know. I call this imaginary land Republica.
1:35.0	Yeah, what's that?
1:40.0	Yep, there it is.
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