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Is it proper to study canine pyschology via dogs kept chained all day long? It helps you understand the chained dog, if that is your goal --- but it doesn't te
by redcircle 15y ago
Is it proper to study canine pyschology via dogs kept chained all day long? It helps you understand the chained dog, if that is your goal --- but it doesn't teach you the nature of the dog. I'd like to see studies of teenagers raised neurosis free --- not studies of kids who have been dominated and forced to submit all their lives (which is the essence of American moral conditioning), filling them with repressions that finally reveal themselves during adolescence as antisocial behavior.
- shin_lao 15y agoI'm not sure to understand what you mean. Human beings live in societies with codes, fears and prohibitions. What kind of environment are you thinking about?
- pavel_lishin 15y agoPerhaps he'd like to study feral children, those wonderful paragons of human strength, dignity and achievement. I hear some of them eventually learn to speak, and not defecate indoors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_children#Documented.2Falleged_cases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_children#Documented.2Fall...
- bobbles 15y agoNot sure about you, but I prefer to do almost all of my defecating indoors =]
- redcircle 15y agoOne without power relationships --- thus without American moral conditioning. Just because we grew up in the American system doesn't mean that other systems don't exist. It is far easier to raise a happy, flourishing, nuerosis-free child that integrates with society's norms and morals, than it is to discipline your way there with the child. The domination streak of America gives very predictable results: we bomb other countries relentlessly, using excuses that appeal to our moral conditioning. It is really funny to see the condescending responses (not yours) in this thread from people that belong to a moral system that bombs innocent people (whether directly or indirectly via delayed detonation of cluster bombs). Note: I've appealed to the indoctrinated American moral conditioning by mentioning the bombing, hoping to highlight the contradictions.
- shin_lao 15y agoIf there is more than one human being, there is a hierarchy. As for the rest I think whatever you Americans like to bomb is out of topic.
- AlexandrB 15y agoBad analogy, wild dogs (wolves) are pack animals and are subject to the influence of their peers as much as humans are.