I was on Red Vs Blue's website (which I'm a forum member of) and reading a friends journal and this person had wrote that she believed that children are the polar opposite of the "symbol of innocence" eveyone says they are. And that people aren't born "good". The following was my response. (I did take out minor things in the following that were me talking directly to her or quoteing making mention to her journal entry as a reference.)
Now what I'm about to say is my opinion, I don't want it to seem like I'm preachy or something heh. It's just my opinion and ideas.
The way I see it, the reason everyone says that we as humans aren't born good or that children have to be taught to be good is because, we as adults are looking at these young ones with adult perspectives. What I mean is, as we grow up imagination and being care free is beaten out of us until we are nothing but another drone among many. People say kids have to be taught how to be good and they don't have to be taught how to be bad. I believe that to be utter bullshit. What we have to "teach" them, are the rules our society created and told us what is good and bad. How they behave isn't being bad, evil, malicious etc., it's the simple fact that what they are doing they don't know is wrong. That's where us teaching them how to act comes in. Until we tell them, "This is good, and that's bad." how are they supposed to know that? It seems to me that we are expecting them to come out of the womb with all that knowledge somehow absorbed through osmosis or something. Think back to when you were little. Did you know what was "right and wrong" until someone told you? No, in all probability you were curious about something or where letting your imagination really cut loose.
I will also add that this all breaks down to what each individual on this planets definition of "good" is. Like most things, what one person's definition of it is, is not the same as the person next to them. And yes, I do think that children emobody innocence. Like what I said in the previous paragraph, they have to be told right from wrong as it fits in our society. Once again, look back to when you where little. On the whole, you probably were trusting, loving, spoke your mind etc. And as we got older, the society we were raised in slowly stripped us of that. Told us not to trust anyone, don't speak your mind and that being kind to another human being was for wusses. We were taught to just lay back an accept what life hit us with and to not attempt to better ourselves or our situations. That we couldn't do it, and that if we tried we would fail. That's the innocence I believe that is in children. Ah, here's a good example: ever been driving and happen to pass your local elementry school when the kids are at recess (which is something I think we all miss)? If you haven't, sometime go by one and observe the kids at play. Observe how carefree they are. Those kids still believe that they can be and do anything. They are still discovering the many many wonders of this planet. And they are still able to believe in things that we as adults have said are make believe.
I will admit that there are children out there that are an exception to this thought. I've seen the Good Son as well, and I believe there are kids out there like that. But heres the thing about them..... they're mentally unstable. There is something wrong with their mind that turns them into something like Hannible Lector. Those kids only make up a small minority of youth as a whole. The majority of kids are just curious and high spirited. They're like sponges willing to absorb anything you want to teach them.
Yes, I will also conceide that they can be a pain when you're trying to tell them what to do. But that would that free spiritedness (if that's a word) in them that we as adults beat out of them, because it was beaten out of us. Again, think back to when you were a kid. When an adult wanted you to do something you didn't want to do, what was your reaction? You wanted to be able to do what you wanted to do. To just be a kid. This also leads into a whole other rant about so called "Child Psycology", but that is for another time.
Anyway, those are just my thoughs. In no way take this as any angry rant, or me trying to forcefully change your opinion. I mean if you take something from this and have a new outlook on something thats great, but you may not. I'm just a who has thoughts and ideas.
Now what do you think???
Until next time, bye now.
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