So a recent debate in Scotland caught my attention. Neil McKeganey offered this as a proposal to help families with parents who have struggled with substance addiction: put CCTV (closed circuit television) cameras in their homes so that the government has video access to evidence.

While the general reaction to the proposal seems destined to doom it, the very idea that the government is the caretaker of the family is frightening. It doesn’t seem far off to suggest that as long as the government is going to have to watch our children, it might be just as easy to just turn them over to the state. That is, after all, what many do for 8 hours a day of public schooling.