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Adults aren't wiser and more experienced children. They're children with the creative and vital burnt out of their souls and replaced with a respectable act tha

Adults aren't wiser and more experienced children. They're children with the creative and vital burnt out of their souls and replaced with a respectable act that gets put on for other adults. Defiance, disrespect, and disconnection are absolutely the correct way to interact with those who insist on destroying a fundamental part of who you are.

zeveb 11y ago
> Defiance, disrespect, and disconnection are absolutely the correct way to interact with those who insist on destroying a fundamental part of who you are. A fundamental part of who you were when you were born was crying every time you were the least bit upset; it was evacuating your bowels without even trying to contain them. A fundamental part of who you were as a small child was being a psychopath who didn't fully realise that other people are, well, people. A fundamental part of who you were as a teenager was an underdeveloped brain — and another was the overdeveloped hormone production which didn't help your decision-making skills any. None of those are unique to you: they are the common lot of all of us. The whole point of good parenting is to destroy all the fundamental parts of children which are animalistic and contrary to survival in the world as it is, and to inculcate the development of secondary parts which are humanist and support survival. Now, many parents fail at those tasks, but those who succeed produce healthy, functional adult human beings. Bad parents produce selfish, brutal, cruel, unkind, animalistic demihumans.
- ThrustVectoring 11y ago
  There's a huge difference between showing children a more humane way to interact with the world, and crushing your child's spirit until they do what you want them to. Doing the latter is how you end up with breaking people to the point where they don't notice that they have emotions for a decade. Evil people don't think they're evil - instead, they think things like "spare the rod, spoil the child". Just... goddamn, be careful with spreading that line of thinking, okay?

zeveb 11y ago

> Defiance, disrespect, and disconnection are absolutely the correct way to interact with those who insist on destroying a fundamental part of who you are. A fundamental part of who you were when you were born was crying every time you were the least bit upset; it was evacuating your bowels without even trying to contain them. A fundamental part of who you were as a small child was being a psychopath who didn't fully realise that other people are, well, people. A fundamental part of who you were as a teenager was an underdeveloped brain — and another was the overdeveloped hormone production which didn't help your decision-making skills any. None of those are unique to you: they are the common lot of all of us. The whole point of good parenting is to destroy all the fundamental parts of children which are animalistic and contrary to survival in the world as it is, and to inculcate the development of secondary parts which are humanist and support survival. Now, many parents fail at those tasks, but those who succeed produce healthy, functional adult human beings. Bad parents produce selfish, brutal, cruel, unkind, animalistic demihumans.

ThrustVectoring 11y ago
There's a huge difference between showing children a more humane way to interact with the world, and crushing your child's spirit until they do what you want them to. Doing the latter is how you end up with breaking people to the point where they don't notice that they have emotions for a decade. Evil people don't think they're evil - instead, they think things like "spare the rod, spoil the child". Just... goddamn, be careful with spreading that line of thinking, okay?