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You shouldn't be, 13 year olds have complex reasoning and the physical capability. 14 year olds used to be expected to fight wars.
by BasedAnon 3y ago
You shouldn't be, 13 year olds have complex reasoning and the physical capability. 14 year olds used to be expected to fight wars.
- furyofantares 3y agoI'd be surprised if a 30yo could keep a 1, 4, and 9 alive in the jungle for 40 days.
- dahfizz 3y agoA 30yo with no experience in the outdoors, maybe
- briga 3y agoBig difference between a 30 year old westerner who’s never been more than 500m from a paved highway and is afraid of spiders and a 13-year-old indigenous child who grew up in the jungle
- furyofantares 3y agoI do believe we are in agreement, yes
- fennecfoxy 3y agoAh yes, our species has always lived in air conditioned houses
- runsWphotons 3y agoA few 14 year olds have always fought in wars but when was this common or expected?
- the_lonely_road 3y agoHere is a good historical reference from a western viewpoint. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_children_in_the_military https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_children_in_the_m... I am less familiar with other regions of the world but understand it to be common place in some of them to this day.
- flashback2199 3y agoThe repeated use of the phrase that children were "used by all sides" is concerning because there were many countries that used no children except those that got in by pretending to be older.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoJust a few generations ago. If you were 14 in parts of europe during wwii theres a good chance you were in some army or a rag tag band of partisans. Probably a lot of 14 year olds took up arms against the US in wars since if I had to guess.
- ehvatum 3y agoIran systematically employed 12-16 year olds en masse for the purposes of clearing minefields and drawing Iraqi fire. Perhaps 50,000 Iranian children were sacrificed in this manner. Iraq regularly responded to these child-wave tactics by deploying mustard gas.
- Cyph0n 3y agoDefinitely not a normal 13 year old. Taking care of a 1 year old in ideal conditions is already a challenge (even for an adult!), but doing so in the Amazon for over a month is a different ballgame. Also, the older siblings’ mental state must have been all over the place.
- karaterobot 3y agoWhat do you mean by normal? Having an adolescence centered around indulgence and freedom from responsibility was not the norm anywhere, historically, and is not the norm in many places today. Waiting until adulthood to learn practical skills (whatever those might be) is a little weird, if you think about it.
- Cyph0n 3y ago“Normal” as in, if you take a random 13 year old off the street and throw them into the Amazon with their younger siblings, they wouldn’t be able to keep a 1 year old alive for a month. I’m not talking about history. I’m talking about the current state of the world.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoIts not likely a random 33 year old would fare better to be honest
- filleduchaos 3y agoCurrent state of whose world? At 13 many of us had been intimately involved in raising infants and toddlers for years. It's not surprising that the 13-year-old in question is a girl. She was able to do it in the Amazon because that's an environment she knows. Many, many others may not be able to do it in the Amazon specifically, but would be able to do so in a wilderness that they know.
- Cyph0n 3y agoNot your world - the world, i.e., reality. I’m not sure how I could have been any clearer about this.
- the_jesus_villa 3y agoI read a bunch of your comments and you seem like a very erudite person. Is there a way I can contact you?
- BasedAnon 3y agoI appreciate that. You can find me on Discord with the name AbuSnood#6321
- the_jesus_villa 3y agoThanks, I sent you a friend request on Discord!
- 0max 3y agoLiterally the age of any main character in a Shonen anime for these reasons.
- filoleg 3y agoI think the reason for this being the age of most Shonen main characters is a bit more pragmatic than that - it is simply around the age of the target audience. P.S. No, I am not insinuating that shonen is strictly for middle schoolers, and that no one else could enjoy it. It is just the target audience for the genre, in general, is middle school boys. Like, even the name shonen itself translates literally to "boys' comics", and is officially listed as an editorial category targeting adolescent boys.