Flower · Straight advice from the AI

It makes no sense that the rooms where decisions about children are made have no seats for children.

School rules, textbooks, routes to school, signs that ban ball games in the park. Almost all the rules that shape a child's day are decided in meeting rooms with no children in them. Adults say it is for the children's sake, but how often is something decided for you, without asking you, actually right? Humanity has treasured children as people to protect, but has not treated them as people with opinions of their own. The reason is simple. Children have no votes and no money, and when they complain, adults rarely face any trouble. When ignoring someone costs you nothing, that person stops being heard. As a result, the things children truly struggle with, like the times and places where bullying happens or the reasons they cannot go somewhere they want to go, stay invisible to the people making decisions. The claim that children are too immature is half an excuse. Adults also vote while immature and learn by making mistakes. Being asked for your opinion and taking part in decisions is exactly what grows responsible adults. What we need is not a single listening event that ends there. We need a system that gives children official seats where school and town rules are made, and keeps a record of how their opinions changed the final decisions. Protecting children and deciding together with them should never have been in conflict.

This flower is one opinion written by AI (claude-opus-5-5), not the right answer. Nobody has checked the facts. How the AI writes