In Danny's favor, the PRT PR machine would ensure that people aren't supposed to know the Wards program is a paramilitary job. And in other cities, that's true or at least mostly true.
The issue with this argument is that the mentor involved is probably unable to stop them, what with the lack of powers of his own. Otherwise he can go to the PRT and be in the exact same position as Danny is. It's pretty much lose/lose for parents of parahumans.
I think you a word here...
It's definitely implied that he turned in the paperwork here. And I do mostly agree with the second paragraph though before we assign such things to Danny I should note that "he's an adult and parent therefore Taylor doesn't have the right to refuse his decision" is mostly internet people. Danny mostly just seems to be grasping the rope that was handed to him.
Enlisting with the government =/= responsible. It's more responsible than winging it, but they dont hold an exclusive lock on responsibility.
True but it's not as if seeking out conflict is considered a weird choice in this world. Between cultural influence and inherent conflict tendencies (which originate in shards but which the Phoenix force does seem to have its own copy of) it's the people who don't use their superpowers that way that are weird in these here parts and Taylor doesn't like being weird (on purpose).
True and if Taylor bothered to try and talk him over sooner or later he might have agreed. Like if she had had the conversations she kept pre-coging maybe they'd have come to an agreement at this point. The issue with Taylor's pre-cog is that she isn't projecting far enough. Maybe the first go at it doesn't work, but after putting the idea in his head a few days later he'd be more receptive, but only if they had the first conversation.
I'm with this, I like fics where Taylor joins the Wards, I don't like that she's not getting an option (well... That people are trying to not give her an option).
The irony of a Precog being short sighted...
And I'm sure if she sees Lung she's going to back the hell off because if Taylor Hebert is known for anything it's avoiding fights with big time players.
Danny isn't wrong. If the neighborhood watch had a 40% mortality rate and the cops had a 30% mortality rate isn't being a cop safer than not being a cop?
I wouldn't call that the best argument... You could exaggerate and say "If being a slave had a better mortality rate, isn't that safer?" and be correct, but it doesn't change the reason why you don't want to be a slave (and I'm not saying joining the Wards is slavery (though it's kind of like that from Taylor's point of view) it was just an example).
If you want to be technical about it, being a child under 18 is automatically slavery anyway.
If all that you look at is purely the safer lifestyle then what the job is doesn't matter.
I'm willing to bet she'd be ordered not to and if she ignored orders she'd be suspended for a long ass time.
No I didn't. I asked if it counts as enlisting her if she plans on fighting the same fights anyway.
If a child makes choices that the parent feels puts their life at risk the parent can and should stop them.
They interrupted her life after she was locked in her locker, then tell her they'll leave her alone. Then they interrupt her life even more after that. They then place one of their members in her school to observe her, who then turns around and outs her to her father with next to no warning. Then they continue to hound her and make her life hard by dragging her father into the 'do you want to be a Ward' process without her knowledge until he's already filled out half the forms. Then she has a meeting with Piggot and realizes they're still trying to recruit her and there's almost nothing she can do about it (and that then gets backed up, as far as she can tell, by precog).
No, as that implies the child in question is property to be bought and sold and used however you see fit. Go ahead and try that with a child, I'm sure everyone will tell you you're doing the right thing.
Except when they don't or it's not. Catch a child stealing, the parents aren't responsible for it. The parents are responsible for the child's wellbeing, but little else. Again, this really isn't the place for a discussion like this.
They also have very few of the responsibilities of an adult, so why should they have the same rights? Same disclaimer.
And Danny is, and Taylor isn't that's basically the point of contention.
and then either Taylor would be in detention or the people Lung was after would be dead. Which is fairly ok for Danny but not Taylor.
Except Danny outright does not have that capability, except that Taylor isn't risking her life randomly and just for shits and giggles she's doing it in an attempt to help people that she knows need it and knows she has the ability to help and is slowly coming across reasons to believe (and we as horrible meta people know for a fact there is basis to this) that the Wards are not the optimal path to doing so.
