"Mike Monteiro argues that harmful practices inherited from an earlier generation should stop with the person who would otherwise pass them onward."
In this personal essay, Monteiro argues that responsibility for ending inherited patterns of mistreatment lies with those who might otherwise transmit them to another generation. His discussion of parenthood supplies an ethical parallel for the manuscript's argument that mentors and makers must decide which inherited practices deserve preservation and which should end with them. The connection concerns responsibility for what we pass forward.
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