Wed, Mar-24-04, 18:48
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Plan: Bernstein Diabetes Soluti
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Location: Michigan
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Originally Posted by ItsTheWooo
A child isn't mature enough to think objectively about such a weighty subject. Their level of reasoning is too immature; not until adolescence does a person have a reasonably well developed ability to understand "gray" abstract concepts, and issues that don't directly relate to themselves. To a child, everything is black and white, and everything is about themselves.
A child exposed to such propaganda would be more apt to think they are a bad person for eating chicken, rather than KFC the corporation is wrong for treating chickens badly.
This is, of course, exactly what PETA wants.
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As a parent, I couldn't agree more. We "shelter" children in certain situations because they are not mentally or emotionally capable of handling certain things (like death, violence, abstract thinking) until they reach a certain level of maturity. Exposing them to such things before they are capable of understanding it as an adult would doesn't "toughen them up" as some seem to think...it confuses and frightens them.
I have no problem with discussing animal cruelty with an older child who is capable of understanding it in a mature way, but handing buckets of fake blood and chicken parts to little kids borders on just plain sick. |