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Or how about raising children self-confident enough to make a phone call home and demand to talk to their mother directly after a couple weeks.
by xenophanes 14y ago
Or how about raising children self-confident enough to make a phone call home and demand to talk to their mother directly after a couple weeks.
- icebraining 14y agoAnd they would let him, why?
- xenophanes 14y agoIf they won't, he knows something is up. Did they never let him outside in public, never go to school, never have contact with anyone who could help? If so, he was basically just locked in the basement, the whole thing about saying he was sent there didn't actually matter.
- icebraining 14y agoI don't mean flat-out deny, There's a reason why simple social engineering works with a very high degree of success, and manipulating small children who have trust in his kidnapper (which isn't rare, since they're often family members) is even easier.
- xenophanes 14y agoWhich is why I suggested raising less gullible, passive, compliant people. Gullibility is a problem, here and elsewhere. I think raising people to be good, independent non-gullible people is a better approach than sticking trackers on them.
- jerf 14y agoWhile we perhaps inculcate a bit more compliance than is strictly necessary, you can't make children not gullible. To be not gullible irreducibly requires enough experience with what is normal to know when something is not normal, and alas, not only do children have a straight-up calendar disadvantage there, the children that we are talking about are also more likely to not have a normal to compare against in the first place. This is the wrong time to play that tune.
- CrankyPants 14y agoReminds me of: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=elizabeth_smart http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=elizabeth_sm...
- derleth 14y ago> Which is why I suggested raising less gullible, passive, compliant people. Gullibility is a problem, here and elsewhere. Young children are going to be gullible and compliant because they are young children. That isn't something you can change until they are no longer young children. It's a question of both the teaching time required and the mental development required to learn those skills. Similarly, some older children and adults are going to be gullible and compliant because they are mentally handicapped. Again, this isn't something you can fix by training them.
- sachingulaya 14y agoHe was raised normally and went to school during those years. I don't know what his thought process was but leaps of logic are a commonly observed phenomenon among kidnapped children.
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