- 31 Aug 2012 16:28
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I can assure you that I was never taught to either steal or burn buildings down.
Kids are born without knowing right from wrong. Without knowing anything at all for that matter.
They learn like we all learn, by trial and error. A process of experimentation.
Now you can teach them stuff, but you can't teach them everything because you are not god and there are finite limits to your time and no finite limits to the number of mistakes they could make in any number of scenarios they might find themselves, that you are unable to predict in advance.
So instead of relying on pre-teaching alone, we also discipline them after they have made mistakes that we do not wish them to make again.
So that they can clearly recognise their mistakes as mistakes and so that they can understand the severity of their mistakes by the severity of the discipline they recieved in return for making them.
I was on the otherhand taught to fight, and I believe that throughout my life I have consistently and almost exclusively used that ability to protect people weaker than me.
Those whose parents were too weak to teach this to their own children perhaps.
Common sense is the use of our sum knowledge so far in life to know an expected outcome in advance of it occouring.
Children have very little life experience and hence very little common sense to draw upon.
Through instruction you can share yours with them to some extent. Through discipline, you can add to their own.
Sceptic wrote:Does anyone else think that if people were stealing, burning down buildings or getting drunk and beating people up that it was because they were taught violence as opposed to the idea that one day they suddenly had common sense beaten into them?
I can assure you that I was never taught to either steal or burn buildings down.
Kids are born without knowing right from wrong. Without knowing anything at all for that matter.
They learn like we all learn, by trial and error. A process of experimentation.
Now you can teach them stuff, but you can't teach them everything because you are not god and there are finite limits to your time and no finite limits to the number of mistakes they could make in any number of scenarios they might find themselves, that you are unable to predict in advance.
So instead of relying on pre-teaching alone, we also discipline them after they have made mistakes that we do not wish them to make again.
So that they can clearly recognise their mistakes as mistakes and so that they can understand the severity of their mistakes by the severity of the discipline they recieved in return for making them.
I was on the otherhand taught to fight, and I believe that throughout my life I have consistently and almost exclusively used that ability to protect people weaker than me.
Those whose parents were too weak to teach this to their own children perhaps.
Common sense is the use of our sum knowledge so far in life to know an expected outcome in advance of it occouring.
Children have very little life experience and hence very little common sense to draw upon.
Through instruction you can share yours with them to some extent. Through discipline, you can add to their own.